A probabilistic analysis of the Game of the Goose

DOI10.1137/140983781MaRDI QIDQ2808273zbMATHOpenAlexFDO

Authors Jan Friso Groote, Freek Wiedijk, Hans Zantema

Publication date 20 May 2016

Published in SIAM Review (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://doi.org/10.1137/140983781

zbMATH Keywords

recreational mathematicswinning probabilitiesprobabilistic gameGame of the Goose

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Combinatorial probability (60C05) Probabilistic games; gambling (91A60) Recreational mathematics (00A08)

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• Mathematica
• Matlab

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