parrondo's paradox

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physics

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Spanish

is a combination of two losing strategies (i.e. In gambling a coin toss) that becomes a winning strategy when they are played alternately.

A combination of losing strategies becomes a winning strategy. It is named after its creator, Juan Parrondo, who discovered the paradox in 1996. A more explanatory description is:There exist pairs of games, each with a higher probability of losing than winning, for which it is possible to construct a winning strategy by playing the games alternately. (wiki)

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