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#351 2013-09-22 05:57:44
- bobbym
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Re: Generating Functions
How about 5 dice?
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#352 2013-09-22 06:01:43
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Re: Generating Functions
295/432.
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#353 2013-09-22 06:05:36
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Re: Generating Functions
That is correct!
In mathematics, you don't understand things. You just get used to them.
If it ain't broke, fix it until it is.
Always satisfy the Prime Directive of getting the right answer above all else.
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#354 2013-09-22 06:21:01
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Re: Generating Functions
So, what now?
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#355 2013-09-22 06:24:53
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Re: Generating Functions
How about for 50?
In mathematics, you don't understand things. You just get used to them.
If it ain't broke, fix it until it is.
Always satisfy the Prime Directive of getting the right answer above all else.
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#356 2013-09-22 07:16:46
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Re: Generating Functions
0.80492350924497374936...
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Taking a new step, uttering a new word, is what people fear most. ― Fyodor Dostoyevsky, Crime and Punishment
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#357 2013-09-22 07:37:27
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Re: Generating Functions
That is correct. Now for the original problem?
In mathematics, you don't understand things. You just get used to them.
If it ain't broke, fix it until it is.
Always satisfy the Prime Directive of getting the right answer above all else.
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#358 2013-09-22 07:38:59
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Re: Generating Functions
0.86881091671669455828...
Here lies the reader who will never open this book. He is forever dead.
Taking a new step, uttering a new word, is what people fear most. ― Fyodor Dostoyevsky, Crime and Punishment
The knowledge of some things as a function of age is a delta function.
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#359 2013-09-22 07:41:03
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Re: Generating Functions
That is correct. You were unable to get the exact answer?
In mathematics, you don't understand things. You just get used to them.
If it ain't broke, fix it until it is.
Always satisfy the Prime Directive of getting the right answer above all else.
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#360 2013-09-22 07:42:32
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Re: Generating Functions
I have the exact answer, it is just very big.
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Taking a new step, uttering a new word, is what people fear most. ― Fyodor Dostoyevsky, Crime and Punishment
The knowledge of some things as a function of age is a delta function.
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#361 2013-09-22 07:43:00
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Re: Generating Functions
Okay, then you are done. Very good work!
In mathematics, you don't understand things. You just get used to them.
If it ain't broke, fix it until it is.
Always satisfy the Prime Directive of getting the right answer above all else.
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#362 2013-09-22 07:45:58
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Re: Generating Functions
Well, why did you say earlier that my answer is incorrect?
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Taking a new step, uttering a new word, is what people fear most. ― Fyodor Dostoyevsky, Crime and Punishment
The knowledge of some things as a function of age is a delta function.
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#363 2013-09-22 07:50:37
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Re: Generating Functions
Because your first answer was incorrect.
In mathematics, you don't understand things. You just get used to them.
If it ain't broke, fix it until it is.
Always satisfy the Prime Directive of getting the right answer above all else.
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#364 2013-09-22 07:53:05
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Re: Generating Functions
Ah, yes, it was. But I am not getting your exact answer...
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Taking a new step, uttering a new word, is what people fear most. ― Fyodor Dostoyevsky, Crime and Punishment
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#365 2013-09-22 07:53:52
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Re: Generating Functions
What is your exact answer?
In mathematics, you don't understand things. You just get used to them.
If it ain't broke, fix it until it is.
Always satisfy the Prime Directive of getting the right answer above all else.
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#366 2013-10-08 13:57:08
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Re: Generating Functions
This is back a few pages..
Now supposing 2 die had faces of 2,4,6,8,10,12 and 2 other die had faces of 1,3,5,7,9,11.
All four die are thrown once. What is the probability of them summing to 20 or more?
Is it 545/648?
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#367 2013-10-08 14:34:48
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Re: Generating Functions
That is correct.
Here lies the reader who will never open this book. He is forever dead.
Taking a new step, uttering a new word, is what people fear most. ― Fyodor Dostoyevsky, Crime and Punishment
The knowledge of some things as a function of age is a delta function.
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#368 2013-12-12 09:40:05
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Re: Generating Functions
That is correct. You were unable to get the exact answer?
Here lies the reader who will never open this book. He is forever dead.
Taking a new step, uttering a new word, is what people fear most. ― Fyodor Dostoyevsky, Crime and Punishment
The knowledge of some things as a function of age is a delta function.
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#369 2013-12-12 10:56:30
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Re: Generating Functions
What is the question?
In mathematics, you don't understand things. You just get used to them.
If it ain't broke, fix it until it is.
Always satisfy the Prime Directive of getting the right answer above all else.
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#370 2013-12-12 10:59:59
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Re: Generating Functions
The same it's been at least 2 pages. It's your non-prime sum of 1000 dice problem
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Taking a new step, uttering a new word, is what people fear most. ― Fyodor Dostoyevsky, Crime and Punishment
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#371 2013-12-12 11:01:56
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Re: Generating Functions
Non prime sum? What kind of a madman would ask that?
In mathematics, you don't understand things. You just get used to them.
If it ain't broke, fix it until it is.
Always satisfy the Prime Directive of getting the right answer above all else.
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#372 2013-12-12 11:03:56
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Re: Generating Functions
You would, it seems.
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Taking a new step, uttering a new word, is what people fear most. ― Fyodor Dostoyevsky, Crime and Punishment
The knowledge of some things as a function of age is a delta function.
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#373 2013-12-12 11:11:41
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Re: Generating Functions
You already got that answer back in post #342.
In mathematics, you don't understand things. You just get used to them.
If it ain't broke, fix it until it is.
Always satisfy the Prime Directive of getting the right answer above all else.
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#374 2013-12-12 12:09:57
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Re: Generating Functions
That one wasn't correct.
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Taking a new step, uttering a new word, is what people fear most. ― Fyodor Dostoyevsky, Crime and Punishment
The knowledge of some things as a function of age is a delta function.
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#375 2013-12-12 13:25:52
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Re: Generating Functions
Hi;
In mathematics, you don't understand things. You just get used to them.
If it ain't broke, fix it until it is.
Always satisfy the Prime Directive of getting the right answer above all else.
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