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Analog roulette rule12/21/2023 ![]() ![]() With that, the orbiting roulette ball suddenly seemed like a planet in its stately, precise and predictable path. I believed that roulette wheels were mechanically well made and well maintained. What about biased (defective) wheels? Al Hibbs and Roy Walford had successfully and sensationally exploited one in Reno in 1949-50, but wheels now usually do not have exploitable imperfections. A theorem said no mathematical system existed. In the spring of 1955 while finishing my second year of graduate physics at U.C.L.A., I thought about whether it was possible to beat the roulette wheel. The first wearable roulette computer created by Thorp and Shannon in 1961. This roulette method and the existence of the wearable roulette computer have been kept a secret until 1966. The predictions of the roulette numbers where the ball will land, were consistent and offered a 44% advantage, but a minor hardware problem deferred sustained high stakes betting and winning real money from the casino. Shannon and Thorp tested the roulette computer in Las Vegas in the summer of 1961. The cigarette pack sized analog device yielded an expected gain of +44% when betting on the most favored “octant” of the wheel. The first Wearable Computer was created to predict roulette.
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