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Question: The Parrondo Paradox

Question:The Parrondo Paradox

MrMarc 3158 Maple
February 17 2010
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I am trying to replicate the Parrondo paradox which can be found for example here books.google.co.uk/books  and

here math.ucsd.edu/~dmeyer/research/publications/noisyqPg/noisyqPg.pdf

However it is quite difficult to replicate the results:


 

I assume that y=0.5  p=0.5  p1=0.1  p2=0.6 and the payouts are +1 and -1. The idea is to combine two losing games into
a wining game. The result is counter intuitive and I must say I find it hard to replicate the result.

I have attached a Maple worksheet where I have done a lot of work already

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