Making a fair roulette from a possibly biased coin

DOI10.1016/0020-0190(90)90072-6MaRDI QIDQ756240zbMATH OpenOpenAlexFDO

Authors Edsger W. Dijkstra

Publication date 1990

Published in Information Processing Letters (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://doi.org/10.1016/0020-0190(90)90072-6

zbMATH Keywords

roulettebiased coin

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Combinatorial probability (60C05)

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