From: Gavin Kistner <gavin@...>
Date: 2006-01-08T01:55:36+09:00
Subject: Re: Dice Roller (#61)

On Jan 7, 2006, at 5:03 AM, Christian Neukirchen wrote:
> "Matthew D Moss" <matthew.moss.coder@gmail.com> writes:
>
>> Hopefully this ASCII art comes through clean:
>>
>> Parse tree for: (5d5-4)d(16/d4)+3
>>
>>                 _______________ + _______________
>>                 |                               |
>>         _______ d _______                       3
>>         |               |
>>     ___ - ___       ___ / ___
>>     |       |       |       |
>> ___ d ___   4       16  ___ d ___
>> 5       5               1       4
>
> So what are the maximum and minimum values of this?

Min: (5*1-4)*(1)+3 = 1*1+3 = 5
Max: (5*5+4)*(16/4)+3 = 29*4+3 = 119

The min for ndm is always n, because all dice start at 1.
The max for ndm is n*m.