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Re: An ingenious, physics-based strategy to outsmart roulette

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Sam Wormley <swormley1@gmail.com> wrote:
> An ingenious, physics-based strategy to outsmart roulette
>> http://qz.com/692805/an-ingenious-physics-based-strategy-to-outsmart-roulette/
> 
> 
>> A colleague of mine built a device that enabled him to beat the
>> roulette table. Impossible you may think, but no; it was based on
>> physics.
>>
>> It worked as follows: to encourage people to bet at roulette, it has
>> been traditional to allow bets to be made after the wheel is spun and
>> the ball is flung, but only before it begins to drop. In that second
>> or two, there is enough information to allow a measurement and
>> computation that will, for example, double your odds of winning. If
>> the computation simply rules out half of the wheel as unlikely, then
>> the odds jump up highly in your favor. Whereas before, your odds of
>> winning might be 98:100 (so you lose); if you exclude half of the
>> numbers, your odds become 196:100?you win big!
 
All of which has been well known for decades, spamming shit head.
 

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Jim Pennino

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An ingenious, physics-based strategy to outsmart roulette Sam Wormley <swormley1@gmail.com> - 2016-06-05 08:30 -0500
  Re: An ingenious, physics-based strategy to outsmart roulette xxein1@att.net - 2016-06-05 07:14 -0700
  Re: An ingenious, physics-based strategy to outsmart roulette Sergio <invalid@invalid.com> - 2016-06-05 10:52 -0500
  Re: An ingenious, physics-based strategy to outsmart roulette jimp@specsol.spam.sux.com - 2016-06-05 17:44 +0000
  Re: An ingenious, physics-based strategy to outsmart roulette Double-A <double-a3@hush.com> - 2016-06-05 12:06 -0700

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