RE: [DL] Heavy Mathematical Answer to Dirk's Question - Long, too.

[Allan Seyberth <darious@darious.com>]

>Avg = Sum [ P(1)*1 + P(2)*2 +...+ P(n)*n) ] where P(i) the probability of
>obtaining *exactly* that number.
>Unfortunately, the tables you have don't do that, so using those tables to
>calculate the averages is nigh impossible...
>
>Your tables are the probability of getting *at least* that number, which is
>quite different...

But there is also a section for Average result.  The first person who did
an analysis used a monte carlo method that treated a bust as a zero result,
bringing the entire average down.  

Other folks who later did the analysis used math to get their results, so I
swapped in their values. It was only later that I realized that the
variances between the data was due to the new data not including the effect
of busts.  The greatest variances were for the 1d columns, then the 3d
columns, then the 2d columns, etc.
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