Shamil Asgarli, Michael Hartglass, Daniel Ostrov, Byron Walden
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Abstract
Two possibly unfair n-sided dice, both labeled 1,2,…,n, are rolled, and the sum is recorded. How should the dice’s sides be weighted so that the resulting sum is closest to the uniform distribution...