From Unequal Chance to a Coin Game Dance: Variants of Penney's Game

2020/06/19 by Isha Agarwal, Agarwal, Isha, Matvey Borodin +17
Computer Science · #00A08 #60C05 #91A05 #Advanced Database Systems and Queries #Algorithms and Data Compression #Combinatorics (math.CO) #Data Mining Algorithms and Applications #FOS: Mathematics #History and Overview (math.HO)

paper · pdf · doi:10.48550/arxiv.2006.13002

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Abstract

We introduce and analyze several variations of Penney's game aimed to find a more equitable game.

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