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rtkwe • 01/21/2025 • 1 reply • view on HN

I know that. I was going back and forth between two squares rolling 3 every time for a statistically improbable number of times. I could have chosen a different move but after going A to B to A and rolling 3 AGAIN I was more interested in seeing if that was a fluke or if it was something else happening.

Being able to do that 20+ times makes it really improbable the rolls were truly random numbers hence my question.


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dragonwriter • 01/21/2025

> I was going back and forth between two squares rolling 3 every time for a statistically improbable number of times.

For a fair single die, every possible sequence of a given length is equally (im)probable. We tend to notice the ones that are particularly convenient or inconvenient, but they are exactly as likely as any of the less memorable ones.

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