Uploaded October 2023 | Updated September 2026, 2 weeks ago

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Dragons, Dice and Evil Numbers.

James Munro is Admissions and Outreach Coordinator for Maths at Oxford University. More about outreach at Oxford can be found at maths.ox.ac.uk/outreach

James Munro: people.maths.ox.ac.uk/munro

Correction: the optimal number for the original 20-sided die problem is actually 35 (this is slightly better than 34). James has been fed to the dragon as punishment for this error.

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