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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 nn-sided dice exist for all n3n \geq 3. We then examine the sums of the labels of such dice, and use these results to construct an O(n2)O(n^2) algorithm for verifying whether or not a triple of nn-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

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