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Old 09-20-2017, 12:48 PM   #5
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Default Re: Math Gurus - Help with Probability

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Originally Posted by Anthony View Post
I'm confused by the exploding mechanism; I would expect a second explosion to be 1d+6 (minimum 9).

If exploding dice go up by 6 instead of 3, A becomes 4.8 and the final average is 3.8
Arg! you're right, I calculated for the second explosion to be 1d+6 (minimum 9), and going up and down by 3's. There go those numbers...

He's exploding in both directions, so the average is as for normal dice.
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