Notes on the arithmetic and the history of casino games
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14 February 2007
Posted 14 February 2007 at 20:18
Baccarat looks opaque from the rail because its drawing rule is a table rather than a decision. Written out line by line, it is one of the simplest structures on any floor.
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3 February 2007
Posted 3 February 2007 at 15:55
In the middle of the last century blackjack stopped being described as a game of judgement and started being described as a solved decision table. The shift is a nice illustration of what computation does to a problem.
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4 December 2006
Posted 4 December 2006 at 13:22
The layout is dense, symmetrical and almost entirely legible once the arrangement of the printed regions is understood as a map of when each wager resolves.
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