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OK, the software package that calculates what has been discussed in this thread has been released: http://cran.r-project.org/src/contrib/Descriptions/dice.html It requires the use of the open-source R statistical programming environment, so there's a bit of an up-front investment of time...

Absolutely: I checked it against the table of results posted earlier in this thread and against a brute-force run for a few combinations that weren't that table. It's got all of the latest revisions you guys found in your iterative process, and the addition of the probabilities of individual...

Thanks for the ideas, folks: I'll get to work! Musrum, I'm actually doing the combinatoric analysis, not just generating a big sample.

Hello everyone, I'm writing a software package to provide answers to the kinds of probability questions gamers have. The first function I wrote deals with a question raised in this forum, viz., what's the average outcome of rolling X d6, dropping Y of them, and summing the remaining dice...

Hello folks, I'm happy to have come across this thread. I'm writing a package for the open-source statistical programming language/environment called "R" that calculates things people want to know about dice rolls, and this was a great first function for me. Nathan, I built the function based...