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  2. Lottery mathematics - Wikipedia

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    Lottery mathematics is used to calculate probabilities of winning or losing a lottery game. It is based primarily on combinatorics, particularly the twelvefold way and combinations without replacement. It can also be used to analyze coincidences that happen in lottery drawings, such as repeated numbers appearing across different draws. [1

  3. Stable roommates problem - Wikipedia

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    The algorithm will determine, for any instance of the problem, whether a stable matching exists, and if so, will find such a matching. Irving's algorithm has O( n 2 ) complexity , provided suitable data structures are used to implement the necessary manipulation of the preference lists and identification of rotations.

  4. Lottery (decision theory) - Wikipedia

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    It is also founded in the famous example, the St. Petersburg paradox: as Daniel Bernoulli mentioned, the utility function in the lottery could be dependent on the amount of money which he had before the lottery. [4] For example, let there be three outcomes that might result from a sick person taking either novel drug A or B for his condition ...

  5. Coupon collector's problem - Wikipedia

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    Graph of number of coupons, n vs the expected number of trials (i.e., time) needed to collect them all E (T ) In probability theory, the coupon collector's problem refers to mathematical analysis of "collect all coupons and win" contests.

  6. Stable marriage problem - Wikipedia

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    In mathematics, economics, and computer science, the stable marriage problem (also stable matching problem) is the problem of finding a stable matching between two equally sized sets of elements given an ordering of preferences for each element. A matching is a bijection from the elements

  7. Fair random assignment - Wikipedia

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    Fair random assignment (also called probabilistic one-sided matching) is a kind of a fair division problem. In an assignment problem (also called house-allocation problem or one-sided matching ), there are m objects and they have to be allocated among n agents, such that each agent receives at most one object.

  8. Lottery - Wikipedia

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    The purchase of lottery tickets cannot be accounted for by decision models based on expected value maximization. The reason is that lottery tickets cost more than the expected gain, as shown by lottery mathematics, so someone maximizing expected value would not buy lottery tickets. People buy lottery tickets anyway, either because they do not ...

  9. Blossom algorithm - Wikipedia

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    INPUT: Graph G, matching M on G OUTPUT: augmenting path P in G or empty path if none found B01 function find_augmenting_path(G, M) : P B02 F ← empty forest B03 unmark all vertices and edges in G, mark all edges of M B05 for each exposed vertex v do B06 create a singleton tree { v} and add the tree to F B07 end for B08 while there is an ...