A Game with N Players

  • Cho, Dae-Hyeon (Department of statistics, Inje University, Kim-Hae, Kyongnam, 621-170, Korea.)
  • Published : 1996.06.01

Abstract

In this paper we consider the gambler's ruin problem with N players and derive the formula for computing the expected ruin time when the initial fortunes of all N players are the same. And we present an example for the case of N = 5.

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