egoistic post

haha. was looking at vjc maths dept website for some other purposes... and to my pleasant surprise. i found a paper that was written by yours truly seven years ago...

it's about non-transitive dice. basically, it's about a set of dice, call them A, B and C, with numbers which are not the usual ones. we have A being more likely to win B, B more likely to win C and (here's the weird thing) C more likely to win A. through some stroke of luck, i managed to find a way to create a set of non-transitive dice, of any size and each dice having any number of faces (strictly speaking, a dice should have 6 faces). with some fanciful presentation, the team managed to get some gold award in some science festival. haha.

oh... i also remembered getting pm lee's (then dpm lee) autograph on a report for e project. e amazing thing was that he knew about our topic by just looking at the title. (not many maths pple know wat are non-transitive dice) i knew he knew cos he asked, "so how many triplets did u come up with?" when the title of the project did not give any hint of the set being a triplet. n u can guess my answer...

haha. this post is so bhb...