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yeah, but I don't think she was referring to "mixed bunch numbers" series collectively in general, but rather the specific one mentioned, or any specific one for that matter (at least in THAT quote).

haha! You should never "just accept" an answer because someone says so. I posted that for a couple of reasons: 1. At the beginning of the thread, someone posted there was apparently NO follow up discussion to this particular puzzle (especially from her). 2. Hopefully this will shed at...

http://www.parade.com/askmarilyn/2011/08/Likelihood-of-Die-Tosses-15.html

1) I know, but technically it does not explicitly say that, it is just presumed (along with some other assumptions, of course). Which is fine, I’ll go along with that; to assume otherwise would be ridiculous and missing the point of the puzzle. The reason I mentioned that is because many people...

Did anyone besides Fredrik even read my post on page 3??

Because, as you said, she never mentioned ANYTHING about assumptions about how the dice are rolled and behavior and so forth, then technically she's wrong only on the account that the inquiry is INCONCLUSIVE... there's no way of determining the probabilities without making one of those...

No, she's right, depending upon the dice thrower's behavior (believe it or not)... Assuming that the dice thrower only accounts throws that result in one of those two sequences, then yes, the likelyhoods of either having occurred are the same. However, assuming that the dice thrower allows for...