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Old 08-23-2017, 11:20 PM   #5
Ulzgoroth
 
Join Date: Jul 2008
Default Re: Minor dice rolling/ probability question

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Originally Posted by dripton View Post
If 1s are just rerolled, then you're basically rolling a 5-sided die, labeled 2-6. Where the 6 is actually 5 + the result of another die roll.
I hadn't looked at the 1 reroll that way, but that's quite true.
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Originally Posted by dripton View Post
Anyway, I think a closed-form solution for this is hard, so I just wrote some code to estimate it. And got about 4.75 on average.
A closed form solution is rather easy, and I presented it above. Same answer as you got.
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