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How many don't really have any opinion at all?
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Good, that wins.
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so he wrote this letter to try to get help on his bets from Newton,
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and Newton replied, four days later,
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"What is the expectation or hope of A
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to throw every time one six, at least, with six dyes?"
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So you get two sixes you still win;
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that wasn't clear in the original statement.
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So he says, "If we formulate the question that way,
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it appears by an easy computation that
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the expectation of A is greater than B or C;
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that is, the task of A is the easiest."