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Gambler's Ruin - Simulation applet   COURSE_COMMUNITIES_JAVA_ID


Course Topic(s): Probability | Discrete Distributions, Bernoulli and binomial | Famous Problems, gambler's ruin

An applet which simulates a game of chance between the gambler of finite means and the bank, which cannot go bankrupt. Vary the starting amounts and the target amount to win. A user guide is given. Little to no expository information is given on this site.

Resource URL: http://mathforum.org/mathtools/tool/47551/ps,ALL,ALL,ALL/


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Subject classification(s): Statistics and Probability | Probability | Univariate Distributions

Creator(s): Hakan Kjellerstrand

Contributor(s): Hakan Kjellerstrand

This resource was cataloged by Carolyn Cuff

Publisher:
Math Forum

Resource copyright: 2003-2012 The Math Forum @ Drexel

This review was published on September 24, 2012

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