Information Entropy and Parrondo's Discrete-Time Ratchet
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Parrondo's paradox involves two losing games of chance. The paradox is that a winning situation is produced when the two games are played in a random sequence in accordance with fixed probabilities. In this paper we investigate the relationship between these parameters and the entropy rates of the games.
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