Passing the Buck and Firing Fibonacci: Adventures with the Stochastic Abacus

DOI10.1080/00029890.2019.1577089MaRDI QIDQ5742460zbMATH OpenOpenAlexWikidataFDO

Authors Bruce Torrence

Publication date 14 May 2019

Published in The American Mathematical Monthly (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://doi.org/10.1080/00029890.2019.1577089

zbMATH Keywords

pass-the-buck

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Fibonacci and Lucas numbers and polynomials and generalizations (11B39) Computational methods in Markov chains (60J22) Numerical analysis or methods applied to Markov chains (65C40)

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