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A Conversation with Len Fisher
Chances are you've played Rock, Paper, Scissors, but how do you calculate your strategy, if you have one at all? In Rock, Paper, Scissors: Game Theory in Everyday Life, physicist Len Fisher points out that putting yourself in your opponent's mindset is a key to success in the game.
1.9.2009 at 05:21pm - Comment by junkercbThis sounds like an espisode on Numb3rs! Keep it coming ... the book and Numb3rs.
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