A probabilistic way to discover the rainbow
A slogan that you find on the back of a pack of Skittles candy says ‘No two rainbows are the same. Neither are two packs of Skittles. Enjoy an odd mix.’ An online blog [1] describes how the blogger found two identical packs of Skittles, among 468 packs with a total of 27,740 Skittles. Meticulously c...
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| Veröffentlicht in: | Mathematical gazette 2022-03, Vol.106 (565), p.103-115 |
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| Zusammenfassung: | A slogan that you find on the back of a pack of Skittles candy says ‘No two rainbows are the same. Neither are two packs of Skittles. Enjoy an odd mix.’ An online blog [1] describes how the blogger found two identical packs of Skittles, among 468 packs with a total of 27,740 Skittles. Meticulously collecting the data for this experiment was apparently triggered by some earlier calculations. More precisely, the blogger writes: |
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| ISSN: | 0025-5572 2056-6328 |
| DOI: | 10.1017/mag.2022.15 |