Loaded dice with an evenly spread total
Question
Two six-sided dice, faces numbered 1 to 6, may each be loaded in any way you like (independently). Can they be weighted so that every total from 2 to 12 is equally likely?
Short answer
No. Uniform totals force . But a total of 7 includes the outcomes and , so , requiring for some , which is impossible since .
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- Continuous Random Variables and Probability Density Functions
- Counting and Combinatorics
- Expectation, Mean, and Variance
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