A quantitative study on average number of spins of two-player Dreidel

DOI10.1080/10236198.2019.1691541MaRDI QIDQ5207727zbMATH OpenOpenAlexWikidataFDO

Authors Thotsaporn Thanatipanonda

Publication date 13 January 2020

Published in Journal of Difference Equations and Applications (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/1907.11851

zbMATH Keywords

difference equationexperimental mathematicsgame of pure chance

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Linear difference equations (39A06) 2-person games (91A05) Probabilistic games; gambling (91A60)

Abstract: We give an excellent approximation of the average number of spins of a simplified version of a two-player version of the game Dreidel. We also make a conjecture on the average number of spins of the full version of the game.

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