Problem 44288. Throwing Dice - Will You Be Eaten By The Dragon?

Created by Erin

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David Verrelli on 25 May 2018

Hello, Erin. It's a really interesting problem. According to  Solution 1539769, I think it would be worthwhile for you to include some (small) tolerances within the assert statements in your Test Suite, to allow for rounding due to computations in 'double precision'. —DIV

Rafael S.T. Vieira on 27 Jul 2020

I agree with David.

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Solution 7422030

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ChrisR on 23 Jan 2022

I used my brute-force solution (7421995) to generate enough data to deduce the pattern. Some day I might be able to derive the formula from scratch...

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