2023-10-05
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Dragons, Dice and Evil Numbers.
James Munro is Admissions and Outreach Coordinator for Maths at Oxford University. More about outreach at Oxford can be found at https://www.maths.ox.ac.uk/outreach
James Munro: http://people.maths.ox.ac.uk/munro/
Correction: the optimal number for the original 20-sided die problem is actually 35 (this is slightly better than 34). James has been fed to the dragon as punishment for this error.
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