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Shane Keating

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Tag: combinatorics

How a magician-mathematician revealed a casino loophole

BBC FUTURE

When a gang of gambling cheats sussed out how to beat the house, they inadvertently highlighted a loophole from a shuffled deck. It took a magician-turned-mathematician to reveal how.

combinatorics, markov chain, mathematics, shuffling, statistics
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