You meet the Chevalier de Méré before Pascal

You meet the Chevalier de Méré before Pascal
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Your physics professor has just invented the world’s first time machine. As a reward, she sends you to seventeenth century Paris. She also gives you a pill that gives you the ability to speak perfect seventeenth century French, a fashionable wardrobe, and thousands of francs. You arrive at an exclusive Parisian salon. There you meet Antoine Gombaub, the famous Chevalier de Méré. He tells you that he has an appointment to discuss a perplexing probability problem with Blaise Pascal. He says a bit about a problem for which he seeks help. He wants to know whether betting even money on rolling a double-six at least once in 24 rolls is a smart bet. Here is your chance to become one of the most celebrated intellectuals in seventeenth century France. Explain why rolling a double-six at least once in 24 rolls is not a smart bet.

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