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Re:A professor who beat roulette by TameAntelope on Sunday February 27, 2022 @04:41PM (#30492815)
He didn't say contingent bias, you did. Nothing he's written is in any way related to prior individual rolls.

He said he knew how to place a winning bet, he never said it was because the previous results were exactly 1, 2, and 3 and no other numbers. Those results can indicate something other than a "contingent" bias; because they landed on 1, 2, and 3, the wheel is leaning more towards that half of the wheel, meaning he could therefore assume bets on that half of the wheel were more likely to hit, which would then allow him to accurately say he knew what to bet next (a complex bet) that would pay out (win more than wagered).

You're thinking about this mathematically, when the edge comes from mechanical physics.

Re:A professor who beat roulette by betenoire on Monday February 28, 2022 @10:49AM (#30501160)
1 2 and 3 are distributed around the wheel, there is no "that half"
Re:A professor who beat roulette by TameAntelope on Monday February 28, 2022 @12:52PM (#30502734)
Not perfectly evenly distributed, which is the point.