Charles Hoffman

collaborators

2 papers

math.HO2015

Taking the risk out of RISK: Conquer Odds in the Board Game RISK

Sam Hendel, Charles Hoffman, Corey Manack +1

Dice odds in the board game RISK were first investigated by Tan, fixed by Osbourne, and extended by Blatt. We generalized dice odds further, varying the number of sides and the num…

math.CO2012

Enumeration of k-Exceedance Lattice Paths with an Application to Comparing Chains of Order Statistics

Charles Hoffman, Corey Manack

We enumerate the number of monotonic lattice paths starting at $(0, 0)$ and terminating at $(m, n)$ in which $l$ of the first $k$ steps lie below the line $y=x\ (0\leq k\leq m\leq n)…