Making a fair roulette from a possibly biased coin (Q756240)
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scientific article; zbMATH DE number 4190802
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scientific article; zbMATH DE number 4190802 |
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Making a fair roulette from a possibly biased coin (English)
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1990
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This note outlines a method for using a biased coin to simulate an (unbiased) roulette wheel. It contains an interesting application of a theorem of Fermat that, for every prime p and an arbitrary positive integer n, the integer \(n^ p-n\) is divisible by p.
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biased coin
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roulette
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