Astumian's Paradox revisited

Abstract

I give a simple analysis of the game that I previously published in Scientific American which shows the paradoxical behavior whereby two losing games randomly combine to form a winning game. The game, modeled on a random walk, requires only two states and is described by a first-order Markov process.

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References in corpus (1)

• The Astumian's Paradox