A probabilistic way to discover the rainbow

Author:

Prochno Joscha,Schmitz Michael

Abstract

A slogan that you find on the back of a pack of Skittles candy says ‘No two rainbows are the same. Neither are two packs of Skittles. Enjoy an odd mix.’ An online blog [1] describes how the blogger found two identical packs of Skittles, among 468 packs with a total of 27,740 Skittles. Meticulously collecting the data for this experiment was apparently triggered by some earlier calculations. More precisely, the blogger writes:

Publisher

Cambridge University Press (CUP)

Subject

General Mathematics

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