/* A six-sided die is repeatedly thrown until the outcome is six. on(T,F) means that on the Tth throw the face F came out. From J. Vennekens, S. Verbaeten, and M. Bruynooghe. Logic programs with annotated disjunctions. In International Conference on Logic Programming, volume 3131 of LNCS, pages 195-209. Springer, 2004. */ % on(T,F) means that the dice landed on face F at time T on(0,1):1/6;on(0,2):1/6;on(0,3):1/6; on(0,4):1/6;on(0,5):1/6;on(0,6):1/6. % at time 0 the dice lands on one of its faces with equal probability on(X,1):1/6;on(X,2):1/6;on(X,3):1/6; on(X,4):1/6;on(X,5):1/6;on(X,6):1/6:- X1 is X-1,X1>=0,on(X1,_), \+ on(X1,6). % at time T the die lands on one of its faces with equal probability if % at the previous time point it was thrown and it did not land on face 6 /** ?- on(0,1). % what is the probability that the dice lands on face 1 at time 0? % expected result 0.16666666666666666 ?- on(1,1). % what is the probability that the dice lands on face 1 at time 1? % expected result 0.13888888888888887 ?- on(2,1). % what is the probability that the dice lands on face 1 at time 2? % expected result 0.11574074074074071 */