Player and player , are playing a game. They each have an unbiased 10-sided dice with faces labelled with the numbers . To play, and simultaneously roll their dice. The number that rolls is denoted as and the number that rolls is denoted as . If then they roll the dice again (ie. it is like the last roll didn't happen). If divides then wins, else wins. The probability that wins can be expressed as where and are coprime positive integers. What is ?
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There is this laborious method. Draw a 10x10 table. Ruling out 10 cases of equal throws, out of 90 cases there are 48 cases where B wins. 48/90 is 8/15, i.e. answer 8 + 15 = 23.