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Probably not the Ultimate Question - classicdrogn - 07-31-2008
Probably not the Ultimate Question
and yet, it has the right answer...
How many possible unique results can you have if you roll 2d10 and multiply them?
Forty two.
Numbers appearing once in the results: 1 25 49 64 81 100
twice: 2 3 5 7 14 15 21 27 28 32 35 42 45 48 50 54 56 60 63 70 72 80 90
thrice: 4 9 16 36
quaternary: 6 8 10 12 18 20 24 30 40
by blocks of ten:
1-10 27 times (also equals percent chance)
11-20 19
21-30 15
31-40 11
41-50 9
51-60 6
61-70 5
71-80 4
81-90 3
91-100 1
Why bother?
...
(looks left)
...
(looks right)
...
Let me get back to you on that.
- CD [small]I'm sure it must be good for something...[/small]
ETA: Looking back on this a few days later as I post it, and specifically the distrobution of results on the blocks-of-ten table, perhaops this should be moved into one of the RPG Writing areas as a possible suggestion - I seem to rmember hearing that more people can multiply faster than they can add, and this way there's no fudging over which die you rolled as the tens... Splitting it out into blocks of five to get more options gives the wierd irregular probabilities of the "how many times listed" section back, though.
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