You and a dragon have agreed to let dice rolls determine whether it eats you or not.
The dragon will roll a single die, of x sides. You will roll several dice, of y sides each. The total number of sides on your dice add to x.
The dragon will let you go uneaten if your total throw matches or exceeds theirs.
What are your chances of survival?
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David Verrelli
on 25 May 2018
Hello, Erin. It's a really interesting problem. According to Solution 1539769, I think it would be worthwhile for you to include some (small) tolerances within the assert statements in your Test Suite, to allow for rounding due to computations in 'double precision'. —DIV
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