Urth Net
Digest urth.v031.n016
↰ answers Michael Andre-Driussi
· by quotation
errors at lists1.ba.best.com writes:
5 quoted lines
(A glaring flub:
Harness goes on about how the odds are against it: "there had been one
chance in six of throwing a seven." Well no, not with two six-sided dice!
Seven is the most common throw; two and twelve are the hard ones [harder
than one-in-six, in fact].
Harness probbaly means the sum of the two numbers. Throws that add up to seven: 1-6, 6-1 2-5, 5-2 3-4, 4-3
That's 6 out of 36, or 1 out of 6.
Sunanda.