On Sun, 17 Dec 2000, xprot wrote:
> What are the odds against rolling a pair of dice 6 separate times, and
> not rolling a 7, 11, or any doubles?
Without thinking about it too hard, I make the probability of this event
about 0.052. (I may be wrong; I muffed it the first time through.)
If you really want odds against, I leave the computation to you.
-- DFB.
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