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Finiteness in the Beggar-My-Neighbor card game (Q383179)

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scientific article; zbMATH DE number 6232258
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Finiteness in the Beggar-My-Neighbor card game
scientific article; zbMATH DE number 6232258

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    Finiteness in the Beggar-My-Neighbor card game (English)
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    25 November 2013
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    From the authors' abstract: For card games of the Beggar-My-Neighbor type, we prove finiteness of the mathematical expectation of the game duration under the conditions that a player to play the first card is chosen randomly and that cards in a pile are shuffled before being placed to the deck.
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    absorbing graph
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    Markov chain
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    card game
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    Beggar-My-Neighbor
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    mathematical expectation
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