2000 character limit reached
Playing Several Patterns Against One Another (1507.01322v1)
Published 6 Jul 2015 in math.PR
Abstract: We revisit the game in which each of several players chooses a pattern and then a coin is flipped repeatedly until one of these patterns is generated. In particular, we demonstrate how to compute the probability of any one player winning this game, and find the distribution of the game's duration. Our presentation is an extension (and perhaps a simplification) of the results of Blom and Thornburn.
Sponsored by Paperpile, the PDF & BibTeX manager trusted by top AI labs.
Get 30 days freePaper Prompts
Sign up for free to create and run prompts on this paper using GPT-5.
Top Community Prompts
Collections
Sign up for free to add this paper to one or more collections.