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'Snake-Eyes ' Joe (Posted on 2008-07-28) Difficulty: 3 of 5
"Snake-Eyes" Joe introduced a die of his own into a game of chance.

He was subsequently challenged that the die was biased.

Very rigorously test to see if there are grounds to substantiate this claim; don't accept just two or three trial runs. Are you able to offer a theoretical model consistent with your findings?

Test "Snake-Eyes" Joe's Die with this simulator which has a run of 60,000 at a time:

No:123456Total
Scores 0 0 0 0 0 0 0

Note: the data changes with each subsequent mouse-over visitation to the link.

See The Solution Submitted by brianjn    
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Some Thoughts looks like .... Comment 14 of 14 |
I read all the comments but I have not looked at the code.
Apparently the code (at least originally) was the equivalent of 9 fair rolls, but then every 10th roll, if you get a 1, you don't keep the 1 but instead roll again and accept that new result as the 10th roll.

So the probability of getting a 1 is:
.9*(1/6) + .1*(1/36) = 55/360 = 11/72
which is close to what you get by testing
(assuming the number of rolls, not counting the extra rolls, is a multiple of 10)

  Posted by Larry on 2023-11-25 10:49:03
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