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  2. Eudaemons - Wikipedia

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    The period of rotation of the roulette wheel and the period of rotation of the ball around the roulette wheel were among the four variables. Using a computer that they had built, they were able to predict which of the roulette's wheel's octants the ball would fall on. The computer was designed to be invisible to an onlooker and was small enough ...

  3. Fitness proportionate selection - Wikipedia

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    Fitness proportionate selection, also known as roulette wheel selection, is a genetic operator used in genetic algorithms for selecting potentially useful solutions for recombination. In fitness proportionate selection, as in all selection methods, the fitness function assigns a fitness to possible solutions or chromosomes .

  4. Roulette - Wikipedia

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    Roulette (named after the French word meaning "little wheel") is a casino game which was likely developed from the Italian game Biribi. In the game, a player may choose to place a bet on a single number, various groupings of numbers, the color red or black, whether the number is odd or even, or if the number is high or low.

  5. Game of chance - Wikipedia

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    A game of chance is in contrast with a game of skill. It is a game whose outcome is strongly influenced by some randomizing device. Common devices used include dice, spinning tops, playing cards, roulette wheels, numbered balls, or in the case of digital games random number generators. A game of chance may be played as gambling if players wager ...

  6. The Eudaemonic Pie - Wikipedia

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    The book focuses on a group of University of California, Santa Cruz, physics graduate students (known as the Eudaemons) who in the late 1970s and early 1980s designed and employed miniaturized computers, hidden in specially modified platform soled shoes, to help predict the outcome of casino roulette games.

  7. Pseudorandomness - Wikipedia

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    Before modern computing, researchers requiring random numbers would either generate them through various means (dice, cards, roulette wheels, [5] etc.) or use existing random number tables. The first attempt to provide researchers with a ready supply of random digits was in 1927, when the Cambridge University Press published a table of 41,600 ...

  8. Google Slides - Wikipedia

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    Website. google.com /slides. Google Slides is a presentation program and part of the free, web-based Google Docs suite offered by Google. Google Slides is available as a web application, mobile app for: Android, iOS, and as a desktop application on Google's ChromeOS. The app is compatible with Microsoft PowerPoint file formats. [5]

  9. Casino game - Wikipedia

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    In the United States, 'table game' is the term used for games of chance such as blackjack, craps, roulette, and baccarat that are played against the casino and operated by one or more live croupiers, as opposed to those played on a mechanical device like a slot machine or against other players instead of the casino, such as standard poker.