On Parrondo's paradox: How to construct unfair games by composing fair games

ANZIAM Journal

Volumn 47, Issue 4, 2006, Pages 495-511

  Key, Eric S ^a   Klosek M M ^a,b   Abbott, D ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN MILWAUKEE   (United States)

^b NATIONAL INSTITUTES OF HEALTH   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF ADELAIDE   (Australia)

Author keywords

Parrondo's paradox; Random games; Random transport; Random walk in a periodic environment

Indexed keywords

EID: 33748465699     PISSN: 14461811     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1017/S1446181100010099     Document Type: Article

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