Balanced Non-Transitive Dice
Combinatorics
2016-02-03 v1
Abstract
We study triples of labeled dice in which the relation "is a better die than" is non-transitive. Focusing on such triples with an additional symmetry we call "balance," we prove that such triples of -sided dice exist for all . We then examine the sums of the labels of such dice, and use these results to construct an algorithm for verifying whether or not a triple of -sided dice is balanced and non-transitive. Finally, we consider generalizations to larger sets of dice.
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@article{arxiv.1602.00969,
title = {Balanced Non-Transitive Dice},
author = {Alex Schaefer and Jay Schweig},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1602.00969},
year = {2016}
}
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9 pages, 1 figure