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Rational roulette*

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  17 April 2009

F. Downton  and
James M. Hill
F. Downton
Affiliation:
Department of Statistics, University of Birmingham, Birmingham, England.
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Australian Mathematical Society Applied Mathematics Conference
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Bulletin of the Australian Mathematical Society , Volume 26 , Issue 3 , December 1982 , pp. 399 - 420
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Copyright © Australian Mathematical Society 1982

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