DOUBLE PLUS UNGOOD: From Fibonacci to Roulette and Modeling
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"DOUBLE PLUS UNGOOD: From Fibonacci to Roulette and Modeling"
Presented by:
Steven J. Miller, Williams College, Williamstown MA USA
https://qubeshub.org/community/groups/simiode/expo/2025
Abstract: When one first hears about the strategy 'Double Plus One' to beat roulette, it seems too good to be true; that's because it is! This problem and its analysis are a great springboard to teach students from high school through college about the power of coding, gathering and analyzing data, and mathematical modeling. We explain how to use this problem as a springboard to those concepts, and see that we can solve the model through a generalization of the Fibonacci numbers.