An anomaly concerning ties in Lotto-like games

DOI10.1016/0893-9659(93)90012-CMaRDI QIDQ1802416zbMATH OpenOpenAlexWikidataFDO

Authors Gopalakrishnan Sundaram, Steven Skiena

Publication date 3 January 1994

Published in Applied Mathematics Letters (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://doi.org/10.1016/0893-9659(93)90012-c

zbMATH Keywords

tieBingonumber picking game

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Probabilistic games; gambling (91A60)

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• On the Average Number of Maxima in a Set of Vectors and Applications

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