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Thomas Bass' book The Eudamonic Pie describes a project by some people from UC Santa Cruz who did computer-assisted timing analysis of roulette wheels, and did
by kabdib 5y ago
Thomas Bass' book The Eudamonic Pie describes a project by some people from UC Santa Cruz who did computer-assisted timing analysis of roulette wheels, and did pretty well at applying it (for a while).
This was in the late 1970s or early 1980s, and hardware has only gotten smaller and more concealable. I'm not surprised at casinos going to digital "wheels", though it sure seems like cheating when there's no possibility of cheating :-)
- anfractuosity 5y agoI really enjoyed that book, there's also this earlier work by Edward O. Thorp and Claude Shannon - https://www.cs.virginia.edu/~evans/thorp.pdf https://www.cs.virginia.edu/~evans/thorp.pdf
- wmwmwm 5y agoI remember reading it and wondering whether they’d have had more chance of making their fortunes building home computers out of their garages given the era! Great story though (I read the British edition - The Newtonian Casino)
- fgh 5y agoThey ended up founding the Prediction Company and got pretty rich anyway...
- deutschewelle 5y ago[dead]