--- title: "Dice, (De)Convolution and Generating Functions" url: https://daily.dev/posts/dice-de-convolution-and-generating-functions-v6mmzzyej source_url: https://blog.demofox.org/2025/01/05/dice-deconvolution-and-generating-functions/ type: article source: "Bottom of the sea" published: 2025-01-06T00:52:14.324Z updated: 2025-01-06T00:52:28.605Z tags: ["game-design", "math", "statistics"] reading_time: 14 upvotes: 0 comments: 0 language: en --- > ## Documentation Index > Fetch the complete documentation index at: https://daily.dev/llms.txt > Use this file to discover all available pages before exploring further. # Dice, (De)Convolution and Generating Functions **[Bottom of the sea](https://daily.dev/sources/demofox)** · 14 min read · 0 upvotes · 0 comments ## Summary The post explores how to label two dice to achieve the same probability distribution as standard dice using Sicherman dice. It explains the probability distribution of rolling two standard dice, the mathematical process of using polynomials to create custom dice, and the concepts of convolution and generating functions as tools to approach these problems. ## Full article daily.dev links to this article rather than hosting it. Read it at the original source: ## Similar posts on daily.dev - [Don’t just attend KubeCon \+ CloudNativeCon, Merge Forward your experience\!](https://daily.dev/posts/don-t-just-attend-kubecon-cloudnativecon-merge-forward-your-experience--l0rpp73x8) · CNCF · 0 upvotes · 0 comments - [Announcing H2 2026 KCDs](https://daily.dev/posts/announcing-h2-2026-kcds-m96goajm1) · CNCF · 1 upvotes · 0 comments - [Two months of Open Community Groups](https://daily.dev/posts/two-months-of-open-community-groups-asf52zhbs) · CNCF · 0 upvotes · 0 comments --- Tags: [#game-design](https://daily.dev/tags/game-design), [#math](https://daily.dev/tags/math), [#statistics](https://daily.dev/tags/statistics) [View this post on daily.dev](https://daily.dev/posts/dice-de-convolution-and-generating-functions-v6mmzzyej)