Losing Strategies Can Win by Parrondo's Paradox¶
Harmer, G. P., & Abbott, D. (1999). Losing Strategies Can Win by Parrondo's Paradox. Nature, 402(6764).
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Primes¶
- Parrondo's Paradox
- The pattern sits in the same family as stochastic resonance and ratchet phenomena, where directed or beneficial behavior is extracted from an alternation between regimes that are individually sterile.
This sourceIntroduces the capital-dependent games (Game A; the modulo-3 Game B) whose combination yields positive expected return. Corrected DOI: the cited 10.1038/23414 was wrong (resolves to an unrelated paper); the correct DOI is 10.1038/47220, confirmed for this Nature 402:864 (1999) article.
- The pattern sits in the same family as stochastic resonance and ratchet phenomena, where directed or beneficial behavior is extracted from an alternation between regimes that are individually sterile.
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