A TRICK WITH DICE
Here is a neat little trick with three dice. I ask you to throw the dice without my seeing them. Then I tell you to multiply the points of the first die by `2` and add `5`; then multiply the result by `5` and add the points of the second die; then multiply the result by `10` and add the points of the third die. You then give me the total, and I can at once tell you the points thrown with the three dice. How do I do it? As an example, if you threw `1, 3`, and `6`, as in the illustration, the result you would give me would be `386`, from which I could at once say what you had thrown.
Sources:
- Amusements in Mathematics, Henry Ernest Dudeney Question 386
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