Sum of roll of N dice

[Jim Horn]

In theory, theory and practice are the same.
In practice, theory and practice are different.

Thank you for noting that, John! Looks like time for a variable precision math package...

(05-02-2018 02:07 PM)John Keith Wrote:  

(05-02-2018 07:01 AM)Jim Horn Wrote:  Of course, converting an integer to base 6 will likely require a loop which can do the running sum of the base 6 integer as it goes (N iterations needed).

Or use the ListExt command I\->BL.

Note also that this method becomes increasingly less accurate with increasing values for N greater than 15 as 6^N will be greater than 10^12 and the random number thus generated will begin to lose significant bits.

John