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Topic: counter-intuitive fact from everyday mathematics
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Frederick Williams

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Re: counter-intuitive fact from everyday mathematics
Posted: Jun 22, 2012 9:47 AM
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pepstein5@gmail.com wrote:

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> I strongly stand by my intuition that most people would be surprised by this result.

Do you know what surprises _most_ people. Really? Have you talked to
people who play such games as backgammon in which pairs of dice are
rolled?

> This is how I think the reasoning goes. Rolling a single 66 is unlikely (1/36 probability). Therefore rolling a 66 is very hard.

Eh? I'd expect to get one double six in only 36 rolls on average.

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