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cperciva on Aug 23, 2012 | parent | context | favorite | on: Parrondo's Paradox: How two ugly parents can make ...

As much as I like coin-flipping examples, I think the Brownian ratchet (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brownian_ratchet) is a much clearer explanation of this phenomenon.

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