This notebook originally appeared as a post on the blog Pythonic Perambulations. Edit 12/19/2017: added a new subsection on analyzing Chutes & Ladders as an Absorbing Markov Chain. Edit 2020-04-19: Andres added new sections to simulate different dice rolls and different boards. Andres left many of the anecdotes the same but had a similar situation with his son. Andres cannot presume to understand the Markov process yet. Edit 2024-07-17: Andres was prompted to publish this after a conversation with a neighbour added a bit about bin sizes
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