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Although Newton correctly calculated the odds of each bet, he provided a separate intuitive explanation to Pepys. He imagined that B and C toss their dice in groups of six, and said that A was most favorable because it required a 6 in only one toss, while B and C required a 6 in each of their tosses.
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the probability that each die will select the 6 face when thrown (notice that actually the number of faces of the dice and which face should be selected are irrelevant). If
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Pepys initially thought that outcome C had the highest probability, but Newton correctly concluded that outcome A actually has the highest probability.
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D. Varagnolo, L. Schenato, G. Pillonetto, 2013. "A variation of the Newton–Pepys problem and its connections to size-estimation problems."
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This explanation assumes that a group does not produce more than one 6, so it does not actually correspond to the original problem.
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As noticed in Rubin and Evans (1961), there are no uniform answers to the generalized Newton–Pepys problem since answers depend on
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corresponded over a problem posed to Pepys by a school teacher named John Smith. The problem was:
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problem concerning the probability of throwing sixes from a certain number of dice.
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Notice that, with this notation, the original Newton–Pepys problem reads as: is
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C. Eighteen fair dice are tossed independently and at least three "6"s appear.
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Which of the following three propositions has the greatest chance of success?
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dice. Then the original Newton–Pepys problem can be generalized as follows:
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B. Twelve fair dice are tossed independently and at least two "6"s appear.
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A. Six fair dice are tossed independently and at least one "6" appears.
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Chaundy, T.W., Bullard, J.E., 1960. "John Smith’s Problem."
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Chaundy, T.W., Bullard, J.E., 1960. "John Smith’s Problem."
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is the total number of dice selecting the 6 face, then
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A natural generalization of the problem is to consider
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Index

probability
Samuel Pepys
Isaac Newton
binomial distribution
R


Weisstein, Eric W.
"Newton-Pepys Problem"
MathWorld


Stigler, Stephen M
arXiv
math/0701089
doi
10.1214/088342306000000312
S2CID
17471221
v
t
e
Sir Isaac Newton
Fluxions
De Motu
Principia
Opticks
Queries
Arithmetica
De Analysi

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