You've heard of Markov chains. But who was Markov?

Re:You've heard of Markov chains. But who was Markov? by freyr on Thursday January 24, 2013 @04:39PM (#5112419)

> A “Monopoly” board has 40 possible “states”

Ah, just like chess has 64 possible states. Except that chess has on the order 10^47 states.

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Re:You've heard of Markov chains. But who was Markov? by mturmon on Thursday January 24, 2013 @04:50PM (#5112485)

They needed to use "Chutes and Ladders," which really does have a handful of states.

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Re:You've heard of Markov chains. But who was Markov? by bcbrown on Thursday January 24, 2013 @05:17PM (#5112638)

The [position of a player on a Monopoly board] has 40 possible states.

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Re:You've heard of Markov chains. But who was Markov? by mturmon on Thursday January 24, 2013 @06:08PM (#5112855)

But the transition between states in Monopoly depends not only on dice, but also upon the configuration of Chance and Community Chest cards, which has a much larger state space. Besides this, if you roll doubles three times, you go to Jail, which increases the state space more. For more:

http://www.tkcs-collins.com/truman/monopoly/monopoly.shtml

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Re:You've heard of Markov chains. But who was Markov? by bcbrown on Thursday January 24, 2013 @06:55PM (#5113070)

Good point, you're right.

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