Of Dice and Men

Directed by John Weldon · Starring Walter Massey, Richard M Dumont · 1988

A witty animated lesson on probability theory, from a 17th-century dispute over dice to the odds of everyday accidents.

Maths made genuinely funny in a clever NFB animation from 1988.

This witty short animation film introduces the theory of probability. We learn of its inception in the 17th century to settle a dispute over a game of dice, its relationship to predictability, and its application to ever

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