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Astumian's Paradox revisited

Authors	R. Dean Astumian
Categories	physics.data-an
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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