Astumian's Paradox revisited
Data Analysis, Statistics and Probability
2007-05-23 v1
Abstract
I give a simple analysis of the game that I previously published in Scientific American which shows the paradoxical behavior whereby two losing games randomly combine to form a winning game. The game, modeled on a random walk, requires only two states and is described by a first-order Markov process.
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@article{arxiv.physics/0409029,
title = {Astumian's Paradox revisited},
author = {R. Dean Astumian},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:physics/0409029},
year = {2007}
}
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