Optimal Strategy for the First Player in the Penney Ante Game

DOI10.1017/S0963548300000365MaRDI QIDQ4291191zbMATH OpenFDO

Authors János Csirik

Publication date 5 May 1994

Published in Combinatorics, Probability and Computing (Search for Journal in Brave)

zbMATH Keywords

Penney Ante game

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

2-person games (91A05) Probabilistic games; gambling (91A60)

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Cites work

• String overlaps, pattern matching, and nontransitive games

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(11)

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• First-past-the-post games

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Uses Software

• APL

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