Let's say I roll two dice, a d8 and a d12… How do I calculate the probability that the d12 will a) win, b) be equal, c) lose? There is probably a name for this equation, but my google-fu is lacking.

From Monopoly to Backgammon to Yahtzee, our first experiences with board games almost always feature sets of six-sided dice. They’re a great way to create some randomness and chaos in a game, but ...

Ben Newell receives funding from the Australian Research Council. The answer in both cases – the single roll and the 6 rolls - is always to predict red, the dominant colour. But I am prepared to bet ...

Right now, molecules in the air are moving around you in chaotic and unpredictable ways. To make sense of such systems, physicists use a law known as the Boltzmann distribution, which, rather than ...

Monash University provides funding as a founding partner of The Conversation AU. “He [God] does not play dice”, quipped Albert Einstein, but for mortals chance is part of life. We cannot experience, ...