Kasi said:
For all I know it could be as simple as having a stopwatch and a knowledge of some physics formulae.
That method also works. zg
Ps - JStat's "roulette signature" method does NOT work (but it can work on Big6)
Pss -
The Invention of the First Wearable Computer (Thorp-PDF)
The Invention of the First Wearable Computer
Edward O. Thorp & Associates
[email protected]
Abstract
The first wearable computer was conceived in 1955
by the author to predict roulette, culminating in a joint
effort at M.I.T. with Claude Shannon in 1960-61. The
final operating version was tested in Shannon’s basement
home lab in June of 1961. The cigarette pack sized
analog device yielded an expected gain of +44% when
betting on the most favored “octant.”
The Shannons and Thorps tested the computer in Las
Vegas in the summer of 1961. The predictions there were
consistent with the laboratory expected gain of 44% but a
minor hardware problem deferred sustained serious
betting.
We kept the method and the existence of the computer
secret until 1966.
1: The idea: 1955
In the spring of 1955 while finishing my second year
of graduate physics at U.C.L.A., I thought about whether
it was possible to beat the roulette wheel. A theorem said
no mathematical system existed.
I believed that roulette wheels were
mechanically well made and well maintained. With that,
the orbiting roulette ball suddenly seemed like a planet in
its stately, precise and predictable path.
I set to work with the idea of measuring the position
and velocity of the ball and rotor to predict their future
paths and from this where the ball would stop.
>> Continued at PDF link above >>