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Default Probabilities, random numbers and dice throws


Greetings,

I have been trying to make a worksheet in excel 2003 to calculate
probabilities associated with dice throws... I am setting it up so that
i can define the number of dice i want to roll and also the number of
sides they have... I found that rand between is a good way to simulate
it...

My problem is with probabilities. Is there a function or a way to
automatically calculate the probability of having a result of x as the
sum of y dice with z sides each? The prob function requires you to have
an array with results and probabilities... It is too cumbersome to make
by hand for... say... 40 eight sided dice!

Thanks in advance :)


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