Everyone knows that to in roulette, you just bet your wife's
birthday.  You're guaranteed to do well, even if you don't win the
roulette spin ;)

Incidentally, canoes were added to make prediction even more
difficult.  "The Eudaemonic Pie" tells some of the roulette team's
story.  The team members are academically and professionally very
highly regarded, and they continue to use mathematics quite
successfully in various ventures.




On Feb 8, 9:42 am, asgallant <[email protected]> wrote:
> I got a laugh out of that site  >;o)
>
> The only way to win at roulette is to study the behavior of the wheel and
> discover it's biases, then bet on the biases.  The problem is that someone
> figured that out a while ago and created a team that bilked the casinos for
> some millions of dollars before they caught on to what the team was doing.
>  Now the casinos all swap the wheels around their tables, which changes the
> biases with each remount of the wheel, so even if you start observing with
> the first spin of a remount, you can't get enough observations to reliably
> predict the biases by the time they swap the wheel again, nevermind bet
> enough times on the wheel to make the averages work in your favor.

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