Chapter 1: Problem 31
A French nobleman, Chevalier de Méré, had asked a famous mathematician, Pascal, to explain why the following two probabilities were different (the difference had been noted from playing the game many times): (1) at least one six in 4 independent casts of a six-sided die; (2) at least a pair of sixes in 24 independent casts of a pair of dice. From proportions it seemed to de Méré that the probabilities should be the same. Compute the probabilities of \((1)\) and \((2)\).
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