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Mathematicians Designed Perfectly Fair 60-Sided Dice for Any Number of Players
Key Takeaways
- The go-first dice problem asks for a set of dice that fairly determines turn order for any group size with zero ties and no rerolls.
- Eric Harshbarger and a network of collaborators took 15 years to solve it.
- The solution consists of five 60-sided dice engraved with numbers 1 to 300, each appearing once.
- The numbers are arranged so every die has equal probability to beat any other die, also for any subset.
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