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View SchemaAstumian's Paradox revisited
| Authors | R. Dean Astumian |
|---|---|
| Categories | |
| ArXiv ID | physics/0409029 |
| URL | https://arxiv.org/abs/physics/0409029 |
Abstract
I give a simple analysis of the game that I previously published in Scientific American which shows the paradoxical behavior whereby two losing games randomly combine to form a winning game. The game, modeled on a random walk, requires only two states and is described by a first-order Markov process.
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