Balanced nontransitive dice

DOI10.4169/COLLEGE.MATH.J.48.1.10MaRDI QIDQ4581635zbMATH OpenOpenAlexFDO

Authors Alex Schaefer, Jay Schweig

Publication date 20 August 2018

Published in The College Mathematics Journal (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/1602.00969

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Combinatorial probability (60C05) Probabilistic games; gambling (91A60) Probability theory (educational aspects) (97K50)

Abstract: We study triples of labeled dice in which the relation "is a better die than" is non-transitive. Focusing on such triples with an additional symmetry we call "balance," we prove that such triples of $n$-sided dice exist for all $ngeq3$. We then examine the sums of the labels of such dice, and use these results to construct an $O(n^2)$ algorithm for verifying whether or not a triple of $n$-sided dice is balanced and non-transitive. Finally, we consider generalizations to larger sets of dice.

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