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A121228 Number of ways to write the numbers 1 through 3n on the faces of three n-sided dice, so that the 1st die beats the 2nd with probability > 1/2, the 2nd beats the 3rd with probability > 1/2 and the 3rd beats the 1st with probability > 1/2. +0
1
0, 0, 5, 13, 1732, 10705, 697733, 6539451 (list; graph; listen)
OFFSET

1,3

REFERENCES

M. Gardner, "Mathematical Games: The Paradox of the Nontransitive Dice and the Elusive Principle of Indifference." Sci. Amer. 223, 110-114, Dec. 1970.

LINKS

Lee J. Stemkoski, Nontransitive Dice

Eric Weisstein's World of Mathematics, Efron's Dice.

EXAMPLE

a(3)=5:

Set 1:

Die 1: 1 5 9

Die 2: 3 4 8

Die 3: 2 6 7

Set 2:

Die 1: 1 7 8

Die 2: 4 5 6

Die 3: 2 3 9

Set 3:

Die 1: 1 7 8

Die 2: 3 5 6

Die 3: 2 4 9

Set 4:

Die 1: 1 6 8

Die 2: 4 5 7

Die 3: 2 3 9

Set 5:

Die 1: 1 6 8

Die 2: 3 5 7

Die 3: 2 4 9

CROSSREFS

Sequence in context: A009157 A153374 A012032 this_sequence A012173 A009143 A127317

Adjacent sequences: A121225 A121226 A121227 this_sequence A121229 A121230 A121231

KEYWORD

more,nonn

AUTHOR

Mikhail Dvorkin (dvorkin_m(AT)yahoo.com), Dec 11 2006

EXTENSIONS

a(1) corrected by Jon Schoenfield (jonscho(AT)hiwaay.net), May 19 2007

a(6) and a(7) from Jon Schoenfield (jonscho(AT)hiwaay.net), May 19 2007

a(8) from Jon E. Schoenfield (jonscho(AT)hiwaay.net), May 23 2007

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