The ambiguity of random choices: Probability paradoxes in some physical processes

American Journal of Physics

Volumn 64, Issue 1, 1996, Pages 34-39

  Basano, Lorenzo ^a   Ottonello, Pasquale ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF GENOA   (Italy)

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EID: 0030536754     PISSN: 00029505     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1119/1.18289     Document Type: Article

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