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How long is a game of Beetle?

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  22 September 2016

F. R. Watson
F. R. Watson*
Affiliation:
Department of Education, University of Keele
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Extract

Finding myself one day involved in a Beetle drive, and somewhat deficient in the “will to win” essential for success in such competitive circumstances, I began idly to speculate on some of the probability problems involved—they proved to be more absorbing, and more complicated, than I had originally envisaged.

Type
Research Article
Information
The Mathematical Gazette , Volume 65 , Issue 434 , December 1981 , pp. 254 - 258
Copyright
Copyright © Mathematical Association 1981

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References

Further reading

Watson, F. R., A simple introduction to simulation (1980), available from the author (price £2).Google Scholar