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Can Two Wrongs Make a Right? Coin-Tossing Games and Parrondo’s Paradox

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Percus, O.E., Percus, J.K. Can Two Wrongs Make a Right? Coin-Tossing Games and Parrondo’s Paradox. The Mathematical Intelligencer 24, 68–72 (2002). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF03024736

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