The
half-baked idea of seven-sided dice on a crap
game had blown in
from Gurth. You might remember him -- the knucklehead
who wrote in
wanting to wrap
his Uncle in Reynolds Wrap to block Uncle's
pacemaker
signal from interfering with an electronic slot
machine. Recently he
sent me a letter crawling with indigestible mathematical
muck to prove
that the game of craps could rain cash and glory
on the player if
seven-sided dice were introduced on the game,
I am guessing illegally.
I'm
figuring Gurth is in possession of a pair of seven-sided
dice,
since I've seen them before, associated with a
variant form of
Backgammon that uses seven-sided dice and a seven-sided
polygon board
with seven points in each quarter instead of six,
as on a standard
board. Anyhow, I've put Gurth on special secret
assignment, asking him
to field test a seven-sider with five million
random tosses to see if
all seven numbers on the dice equally appear.
That should keep him
busy, and hopefully out of trouble. I figure he'll
be done in nine
years, four months and three weeks. I'll post
the results.
Nice
catch to you, Mike, and those others who noticed
it. The tapes are
in the mail.
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