How can i roll a d4, d6, and d8 and take the maximum number from them and then compare it to a roll of a d10 to see which has the highest probability of rolling the highest number?

I need to make a chart or be able to show a value or anything that will be able to tell which has the highest probability of having the highest value.

[Greg]

What have you tried so far? This sounds like a homework problem (who else would require proof that a d10 has the highest chance of rolling a higher number...?), and we don't like to just hand out homework solutions.

We're more than happy to offer suggestions based on your current efforts.

[Bryced Fischer]

This is a homework question and I am struggling with it and i can absolutely understand that you do not like to hand out solutions. So far I have attempted to put them in a matrix and tried to use the "max" function to determine each roll what number was highest and so far haven't gotten that to work. I also tried to put each of the three smaller dice into a graph and attempting to take the most probable roll of those three compared to the D10 but that doesn't exactly work for the problem I am trying to solve.

[Walter Roberson]

(who else would require proof that a d10 has the highest chance of rolling a higher number...?)

In this situation, d10 has a less than 50% chance of being higher, if "higher" is strict inequality.

Answer 1

[Walter Roberson]

hints:

d8 = randi(8,1,10000);

and if you have a 2D array then max() of the array operates along the first dimension, giving you a per-column maximum, suitable for comparing to rolls of d10.

And be careful about ties.