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To: Zach E. who wrote (83029)	8/16/2000 1:58:44 PM
From: Bilow	Read Replies (1) of 132070

Hi Zach E.; By 2^38 is meant 2 to the power 38. Re what casinos do when people do improbable things... There was a group (from Caltech?) that built a device to allow prediction of roulette. It involved a computer built into the shoe. There was another group that used a computer to count cards. At least one of these groups was beat up and told to never darken the doorstep again, just based on the improbability of their returns. Casinos are not run by people who are impractical, and apparently they have ways of disguising the throwing out of someone. A good reference would be Thorp's book which I believe is the original reference for card counting. He got tossed out of numerous casinos, and beat up a couple of times. I heard him talk, once at a convention. If memory serves he was a professor of Mathematics at a school in California: search.borders.com -- Carl

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