If A_n has 6n dyes in a box, with which he has to fling at least n sixes, then A_n has an easier task than A_{n+1}, at Eaven Luck

Appeared as a filler in the Amer. Math. Monthly, March 1996. All the words are spelled correctly. Not too many papers nowadays are a direct extension of something Newton did. This one is. It uses WZ magic to generalize Newton's answer to Samuel Pepys (Secretary of the Navy and famous diarist.)

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Added Oct. 10, 2023: Read the beautiful exegis by expositiry master Robert Dougherty-Bliss.


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