Parrondo's paradox with a three-sided coin
Wednesday, July 11, 2018 - 09:00
in Mathematics & Economics
Physicists have demonstrated that Parrondo's paradox—an apparent paradox in which two losing strategies combine to make a winning strategy—can emerge as a coin game with a single coin in the quantum realm, but only when the coin has three states (heads, tails, and a side) rather than the conventional two.