Hitting a prime by rolling a die with infinitely many faces

IF 1.8 4区数学 Q1 STATISTICS & PROBABILITY

American Statistician Pub Date : 2023-12-01 DOI:10.1080/00031305.2023.2290720

Shane Chern

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Abstract

Alon and Malinovsky recently proved that it takes on average 2.42849… rolls of fair six-sided dice until the first time the total sum of all rolls arrives at a prime. Naturally, one may extend the...

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掷一个有无限多个面的骰子来得到一个素数

Alon和Malinovsky最近证明了平均掷2.42849…次均匀的六面骰子，直到所有掷出的总数第一次达到素数。当然，人们可以把……

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American Statistician 数学-统计学与概率论

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3.50

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5.60%

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>12 weeks

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