[net.games] craps and probability

jlilien@sdcrdcf.UUCP (05/07/84)

I was reading a letter to the editor in the latest issue of Gambling
Times on a "craps system" that had appeared in a previous issue that
I hadn't seen.  The guy who wrote the letter totally flames the guy
who wrote the original article, except he agreed with him on one point:
Ignore Those Damn Probabilities!  I had always more or less figured
that probability would pretty accurately model the long term behaviour
on the dice; otherwise, there would not be those gorgeous hotels in
the middle of a Nevada desert.  I assume therefore, that both the
author of the original article and the author of the rebuttal letter
are basing their claims on the existence of modelling techniques that
model shorter ranges on throws of the dice, such a numerical patters,
or whatever.  Since I once did some modelling of Network Performance
using probabilities, I would be interested in applying whatever theories
relevant to dice to modelling Network Performance, with the hope of 
more accurately modelling short range performance.  Does anyone out
in net.game land have any knowledge of such things? I would be interested
	Thanks,
	Joel
to know!