Sicherman Dice

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Somewhere at a casino, a person is rolling two six-sided dice and adding the values of the top faces. Out of 36 outcomes, both snake-eyes (1+1=2) and boxcars (6+6=12) can occur in exactly one way, while 7 can occur in six ways. Note that the distribution for the sums 2 to 12 is 1 2 3 4 5 6 5 4 3 2 1. Next, note that =
. The sum of the dice and products of the polynomials are equivalent, due to the addition property of exponents.
Contributed by: Ed Pegg Jr (March 2011)
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George Sicherman was the first to find this alternate set of dice.
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