Look at anything long enough, you’ll start wondering about its particulars, and odds are that more than a few of our readers have stared at a die and genuinely pondered it. Is one face of a 30-sided ...

Let's say I roll two dice, a d8 and a d12… How do I calculate the probability that the d12 will a) win, b) be equal, c) lose? There is probably a name for this equation, but my google-fu is lacking.

From Monopoly to Backgammon to Yahtzee, our first experiences with board games almost always feature sets of six-sided dice. They’re a great way to create some randomness and chaos in a game, but ...

In Roman times, dice were visibly lopsided and were unbalanced in the arrangement of numbers By 1450, dice players and makers seemingly figured out that form affected function when it came to rolling ...

Most humans don’t have a natural facility with probability. It’s not intuitive, like the ability to walk or talk. Learning the mechanics of chance takes time, but is less essential than, say, reading, ...

Chris Wiggins, an associate professor of applied mathematics at Columbia University, offers this explanation. A patient goes to see a doctor. The doctor performs a test with 99 percent ...

Julia Kagan is a financial/consumer journalist and former senior editor, personal finance, of Investopedia. David Kindness is a Certified Public Accountant (CPA) and an expert in the fields of ...

JEFF: How likely is it that Putter will make this shot, Janine? JANINE: The probability? Well, he needs to get his shot past that Pineapple Windmill. JEFF: The windmill with 6 segments? JANINE: That’s ...