Stopping Strategies and Gambler's Ruin

DOI10.2307/30044172zbMATH Open1273.91091OpenAlexW4231092746MaRDI QIDQ2855459FDOQ2855459

Authors: James D. Harper, Kenneth A. Ross 

Publication date: 25 October 2013

Published in: Mathematics Magazine (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL: https://doi.org/10.2307/30044172

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Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Combinatorial probability (60C05) Probabilistic games; gambling (91A60)

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