Notes on the arithmetic and the history of casino games
3 entries filed in this month
12 April 2007
Posted 12 April 2007 at 09:14
Two numbers sit beside every wager on a table layout, and they are not the same number. One describes how often an outcome arrives. The other describes what is handed back when it does. The gap between them is the whole arrangement in miniature.
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5 April 2007
Posted 5 April 2007 at 21:02
The word random is doing two jobs at once in most conversations about machine games. One job is mathematical and precise. The other is a feeling about unpredictability, and the two do not always agree.
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1 April 2007
Posted 1 April 2007 at 17:41
Some games are built on numbers so large that intuition stops working entirely. Writing the denominators out longhand is the only reliable way to feel their size.
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