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2. Roulette - Wikipedia

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   Roulette ball "Gwendolen at the roulette table" – 1910 illustration to George Eliot's Daniel Deronda. 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 ...

3. Boule (gambling game) - Wikipedia

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   Boule is thus rather disadvantageous for the punter; by comparison, in European roulette, the house advantage for simple chance play is 1.35%, and the house advantage for multiple chance play is 2.70%. Boule is played for low stakes compared to roulette, especially in resorts where there is no concession for the Grand Jeu, i.e. a casino.

4. Game of chance - Wikipedia

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   Roulette is a game of pure chance; no strategy can give players advantages, the outcome is determined purely by which numbered pocket a ball randomly falls into. 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.

5. “Today I Learned”: 97 Interesting And Weird Facts To Satisfy ...

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   TIL in the 1990s a man gained an edge on a Spanish casino by recording roulette wheel results & analyzing them with a computer. He was able to predict certain numbers were more likely to hit next.

6. Bauernroulette - Wikipedia

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   Each hollow or bowl in which the balls come to rest have a point value associated with them. Add up the points of each of the hollows in which a ball has come to rest. If the red ball is in a hollow, double the number of points for that ball. If the green ball is in a hollow, the points are subtracted from the sum obtained by the other 5 balls.

7. Fitness proportionate selection - Wikipedia

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   This corresponds to the roulette ball falling in the bin of an individual with a probability proportional to its width. The "bin" corresponding to the inverse of the uniform random number can be found most quickly by using a binary search over the elements of the CDF. It takes in the O(log n) time to choose an individual.

8. Trump’s Cabinet picks face tests of loyalty during upcoming ...

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   Senate confirmation hearings set to begin this week are likely to reveal a defining trait uniting Donald Trump’s incoming Cabinet, regardless of their diverse political backgrounds and uneven ...

9. Gambler's fallacy - Wikipedia

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   An example of the gambler's fallacy occurred in a game of roulette at the Monte Carlo Casino on August 18, 1913, when the ball fell in black 26 times in a row. This was an extremely unlikely occurrence: the probability of a sequence of either red or black occurring 26 times in a row is ( ⁠ 18 / 37 ⁠ ) 26-1 or around 1 in 66.6 million ...