How do you calculate cumulative probability?
13 February 2004, 01:03 PM
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remember my Evening News report on online gambling debt?
I mean in general claire
13 February 2004, 01:08 PM
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Originally Posted by Saxo Boy
Btw, I'm starting to think you abuse your work internet privillages 'almost' as much as me 
many an hour is spent hitting the refresh button on this forum
when im not skiving off to the gym i have NO idea why i havent been fired yet... but whatever. company's fault for not giving me anything to do i guess
at least the money allows me to save up towards a pro powerlifting/bb'ing career
13 February 2004, 01:11 PM
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Originally Posted by Saxo Boy
Yes and the Herald and Post did a similar feature recently.
13 February 2004, 01:16 PM
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FYI they are not the same paper. My Herald & Post may have the exact same amount of pages and exact same words written on it as yours but each paper is unique and different 
13 February 2004, 01:19 PM
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Originally Posted by Saxo Boy
FYI they are not the same paper. My Herald & Post may have the exact same amount of pages and exact same words written on it as yours but each paper is unique and different
(a trait I am guilty of too!)
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13 February 2004, 01:37 PM
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I still think cracking their random number generator with an autoregressive prediction algorithm would be easier... 
Of course, this depends on how bright the implementers of the casino are...
Write a model of the roulette wheel and your system in a programming language of your choice, and let it run for a few hours as a Monte Carlo simulation, then see how it stands up.
Come to think of it - I may do just that and post the results up here to prove this one way or the other. (I have a feeling I already know the answer, as I believe in O'Toole's law - "Murphy was an optimist!")
Of course, this depends on how bright the implementers of the casino are... Write a model of the roulette wheel and your system in a programming language of your choice, and let it run for a few hours as a Monte Carlo simulation, then see how it stands up.
Come to think of it - I may do just that and post the results up here to prove this one way or the other. (I have a feeling I already know the answer, as I believe in O'Toole's law - "Murphy was an optimist!")
13 February 2004, 01:38 PM
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Another interesting thing I just thought: Technically speaking the ONLY advantage the house has is the 'zero'. Having played my first game I recon there was about 5-7 zeros in total. Each time they cost me nothing so effectively I cancelled out that advantage
Of course I understand its not so relevant as you have to look at the bigger picture, i.e. how many numbers help you vs how many that don't but I'm just making the point
Of course I understand its not so relevant as you have to look at the bigger picture, i.e. how many numbers help you vs how many that don't but I'm just making the point
13 February 2004, 01:39 PM
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Write a model of the roulette wheel and your system in a programming language of your choice, and let it run for a few hours as a Monte Carlo simulation, then see how it stands up
13 February 2004, 01:42 PM
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Originally Posted by Saxo Boy
Another interesting thing I just thought: Technically speaking the ONLY advantage the house has is the 'zero'. Having played my first game I recon there was about 5-7 zeros in total.
13 February 2004, 01:44 PM
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Originally Posted by Saxo Boy
What I find really amusing isn't that you think I could write such a programme but rather that you think I'd have choice over which programme language
13 February 2004, 01:45 PM
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To be brutally honest I couldn't even begin to guess (must be more than that though so there must have been more zeros). This is why I think I should log it next time as this is information that would be useful to have
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13 February 2004, 01:46 PM
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Excel would have been OK. It's a programming language of sorts...
You forget what I do for a living and what I do in my spare time - I've now got a very skewed view of reality now. (I'm sure I told you once...
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Not to mention a rather sad soical life
You forget what I do for a living and what I do in my spare time - I've now got a very skewed view of reality now. (I'm sure I told you once...
)Not to mention a rather sad soical life
13 February 2004, 01:50 PM
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I'd love to check as you are probably a VIP but SN3 kinda screwed that up Remind me
Besides, Milo is the brains (and muscles) of this outfit
Remind me Besides, Milo is the brains (and muscles
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13 February 2004, 01:54 PM
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LOL.
I design parts for radars in the defence industry - this includes some mathematical modelling...
Oh and I write car engine diagnostic software in my spare time.
I design parts for radars in the defence industry - this includes some mathematical modelling...
Oh and I write car engine diagnostic software in my spare time.
13 February 2004, 02:40 PM
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12 pages and no mention of Martingale systems!
I'm with Imlach. Having traded & studied trading and money management for coming up to 15 years, I understand what SB is trying to do and although it may work in a small sample, in the long run, it won't.
Classic thread
I'm with Imlach. Having traded & studied trading and money management for coming up to 15 years, I understand what SB is trying to do and although it may work in a small sample, in the long run, it won't.
Classic thread
13 February 2004, 02:54 PM
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12 pages and no mention of Martingale systems
13 February 2004, 02:55 PM
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It is NOT the only part of the system though
it's just the only part of the system that means anything.
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13 February 2004, 03:09 PM
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I'd argue the pyramid part of the system is more fundamental and important as each new level builds in more resistance to loses
By pyramid I mean each £810 'game' generating 2 offspring of equal value
By pyramid I mean each £810 'game' generating 2 offspring of equal value