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Publication Date: 2012-Mar
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Lake Wobegon Dice
Moraleda, Jorge; Stork, David G.
College Mathematics Journal, v43 n2 p153-160 Mar 2012
We introduce Lake Wobegon dice, where each die is "better than the set average." Specifically, these dice have the paradoxical property that on every roll, each die is more likely to roll greater than the set average on the roll, than less than this set average. We also show how to construct minimal optimal Lake Wobegon sets for all "n" [greater than or equal to] 3.
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