First-past-the-post games

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First-past-the-post games

Informally, a first-past-the-post game is a (probabilistic) game where the winner is the person who predicts the event that occurs first among a set of events. Examples of first-past-the-post games include so-called block and hidden patterns and the Penney-Ante game invented by Walter Penney. We for...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author:	Backhouse, Roland
Other Authors:	Gibbons, Jeremy
Format:	Book Section
Published:	Springer 2012
Online Access:	https://eprints.nottingham.ac.uk/1857/

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