FAIR_DICE_SIMULATION
Simulation of Two Fair Dice


FAIR_DICE_SIMULATION is a MATLAB program which simulates N games in which two fair dice are thrown and summed.

Usage:

fair_dice_simulation ( n )
where

Licensing:

The computer code and data files described and made available on this web page are distributed under the GNU LGPL license.

Languages:

FAIR_DICE_SIMULATION is available in a C version and a C++ version and a FORTRAN90 version and a MATLAB version.

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Reference:

  1. Paul Nahin,
    Digital Dice: Computational Solutions to Practical Probability Problems,
    Princeton University Press, 2008,
    ISBN13: 978-0-691-12698-2,
    LC: QA273.25.N34.
  2. Dianne OLeary,
    Scientific Computing with Case Studies,
    SIAM, 2008,
    ISBN13: 978-0-898716-66-5,
    LC: QA401.O44.

Source Code:


Last revised on 11 January 2019.