Notes on the arithmetic and the history of casino games
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24 October 2006
Posted 24 October 2006 at 19:35
Almost everything worth saying about dice follows from one small grid. Drawing it once by hand is worth more than reading a dozen tables of probabilities.
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16 October 2006
Posted 16 October 2006 at 12:08
Two wheel layouts have been in circulation for well over a century, differing by a single pocket. That one pocket is a larger difference than it looks.
Posted in Game history | Permalink
9 October 2006
Posted 9 October 2006 at 10:45
Dice are among the oldest manufactured objects that survive in quantity, and their history is a long argument about how to make an object behave unpredictably on purpose.
Posted in Game history | Permalink