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- Subject: Re: looking for article on loaded dice
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- References: <1992Dec15.233405.2306@muddcs.claremont.edu>
- Date: Wed, 16 Dec 1992 18:08:01 GMT
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- In article <1992Dec15.233405.2306@muddcs.claremont.edu>
- jhoste@kuju.claremont.edu (Jim Hoste) writes:
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- >
- >Next semester I will be teaching an elementary probability class
- >structured around the theme of games and gambling. I want to include some
- >material on loaded dice. Surely someone has worked out the physics of
- >rolling a die (in the shape of a cube) whose center of mass is not in the
- >center of the die. What are the probablities of landing on the various
- >faces as a function of the location of the center of mass? The same
- >question can be asked for dice in the shape of other polyhedron,
- >homogenious or not.
- > I am also interested in the following related question:
- >Can one create a die having n faces where the probability of landing on
- >each of the faces is given in advance? This is certainly true if *die* is
- >interpreted fairly loosely. Somebody must have worked this out already.
- > Can anyone recommend any good articles on these topics?
- > I will summarize the replies that I receive.
- > Thanks, Jim Hoste
- >
- >ps I am also posting to:
- > rec.gambling
- > sci.math
- > sci.physics
- See Letter to Editor re Kemp & Kemp, The American Statistician, August
- 1992, Vol. 46, No 3, pp. 239-240. Says spots on most dice are
- countersunk, which throws the center of gravity off. Also, since
- 6 is opposite to 1, 5 to 2, etc., there is a predictable bias.
- Phil Emerson
- Cleveland State University
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