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45 relations: Aberdeen Proving Ground, Advantage gambling, Arnold Snyder, Blackjack, Blackjack Forum, Blackjack Hall of Fame, Card counting, Casino, Charles Van Doren, Claude Shannon, Columbia University, Combinatorics, Computer, Edward O. Thorp, Engineer, Expected value, Georgetown University, IBM, International Statistical Institute, Isaac Newton, Journal of the American Statistical Association, Ken Uston, Las Vegas, Las Vegas Sun, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Mathematics, Max Rubin, MIT Blackjack Team, Paraphrase, Playing card, Poker, Private (rank), Seminary, Siobhan Roberts, Stanford Wong, Term (time), The Baltimore Sun, The Boston Globe, The New York Times Best Seller list, The New Yorker, The Tech (newspaper), United States Army, University of Nevada, Las Vegas, User guide, 1950s quiz show scandals.
Aberdeen Proving Ground
Aberdeen Proving Ground (APG) (sometimes erroneously called Aberdeen Proving Grounds) is a United States Army facility located adjacent to Aberdeen, Maryland (in Harford County).
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Advantage gambling
Advantage gambling, or advantage play, refers to legal methods, in contrast to cheating in casinos, used to gain an advantage while gambling.
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Arnold Snyder
Arnold Snyder is a professional gambler and gambling author.
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Blackjack
Blackjack, also known as twenty-one, is a comparing card game between usually several players and a dealer, where each player in turn competes against the dealer, but players do not play against each other.
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Blackjack Forum
Blackjack Forum was a trade journal for professional blackjack players, founded in 1981 and published by noted blackjack author Arnold Snyder.
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Blackjack Hall of Fame
The Blackjack Hall of Fame honors the greatest blackjack experts, authors, and professional players in history.
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Card counting
Card counting is a casino card game strategy used primarily in the blackjack family of casino games to determine whether the next hand is likely to give a probable advantage to the player or to the dealer.
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Casino
A casino is a facility which houses and accommodates certain types of gambling activities.
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Charles Van Doren
Charles Lincoln Van Doren (born February 12, 1926) is an American academic, writer, and editor who was involved in a television quiz show scandal in the 1950s.
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Claude Shannon
Claude Elwood Shannon (April 30, 1916 – February 24, 2001) was an American mathematician, electrical engineer, and cryptographer known as "the father of information theory".
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Columbia University
Columbia University (Columbia; officially Columbia University in the City of New York), established in 1754, is a private Ivy League research university in Upper Manhattan, New York City.
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Combinatorics
Combinatorics is an area of mathematics primarily concerned with counting, both as a means and an end in obtaining results, and certain properties of finite structures.
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Computer
A computer is a device that can be instructed to carry out sequences of arithmetic or logical operations automatically via computer programming.
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Edward O. Thorp
Edward Oakley Thorp (born August 14, 1932) is an American mathematics professor, author, hedge fund manager, and blackjack player.
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Engineer
Engineers, as practitioners of engineering, are people who invent, design, analyze, build, and test machines, systems, structures and materials to fulfill objectives and requirements while considering the limitations imposed by practicality, regulation, safety, and cost.
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Expected value
In probability theory, the expected value of a random variable, intuitively, is the long-run average value of repetitions of the experiment it represents.
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Georgetown University
Georgetown University is a private research university in the Georgetown neighborhood of Washington, D.C., the capital of the United States.
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IBM
The International Business Machines Corporation (IBM) is an American multinational technology company headquartered in Armonk, New York, United States, with operations in over 170 countries.
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International Statistical Institute
The International Statistical Institute (ISI) is a professional association of statisticians.
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Isaac Newton
Sir Isaac Newton (25 December 1642 – 20 March 1726/27) was an English mathematician, astronomer, theologian, author and physicist (described in his own day as a "natural philosopher") who is widely recognised as one of the most influential scientists of all time, and a key figure in the scientific revolution.
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Journal of the American Statistical Association
The Journal of the American Statistical Association (JASA) is the primary journal published by the American Statistical Association, the main professional body for statisticians in the United States.
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Ken Uston
Ken Uston (January 12, 1935 – September 19, 1987) was a famous blackjack player, strategist, and author, credited with popularizing the concept of team play at blackjack.
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Las Vegas
Las Vegas (Spanish for "The Meadows"), officially the City of Las Vegas and often known simply as Vegas, is the 28th-most populated city in the United States, the most populated city in the state of Nevada, and the county seat of Clark County.
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Las Vegas Sun
The Las Vegas Sun is one of the Las Vegas Valley's two daily newspapers.
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Massachusetts Institute of Technology
The Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) is a private research university located in Cambridge, Massachusetts, United States.
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Mathematics
Mathematics (from Greek μάθημα máthēma, "knowledge, study, learning") is the study of such topics as quantity, structure, space, and change.
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Max Rubin
Max Rubin is a gambling expert and author best known for his book Comp City: A Guide to Free Gambling Vacations.
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MIT Blackjack Team
The MIT Blackjack Team was a group of students and ex-students from Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Harvard Business School, Harvard University, and other leading colleges who used card counting techniques and more sophisticated strategies to beat casinos at blackjack worldwide.
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Paraphrase
A paraphrase is a restatement of the meaning of a text or passage using other words.
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Playing card
A playing card is a piece of specially prepared heavy paper, thin cardboard, plastic-coated paper, cotton-paper blend, or thin plastic, marked with distinguishing motifs and used as one of a set for playing card games.
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Poker
Poker is a family of card games that combines gambling, strategy, and skill.
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Private (rank)
A private is a soldier of the lowest military rank (equivalent to NATO Rank Grades OR-1 to OR-3 depending on the force served in).
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Seminary
Seminary, school of theology, theological seminary, Early-Morning Seminary, and divinity school are educational institutions for educating students (sometimes called seminarians) in scripture, theology, generally to prepare them for ordination as clergy, academia, or ministry.
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Siobhan Roberts
Siobhan Roberts is a Canadian science journalist, biographer, and historian of mathematics.
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Stanford Wong
John Ferguson (born 1943) known by his pen name, Stanford Wong, is a gambling author best known for his book Professional Blackjack, first published in 1975.
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Term (time)
A term is a period of duration, time or occurrence, in relation to an event.
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The Baltimore Sun
The Baltimore Sun is the largest general-circulation daily newspaper based in the American state of Maryland and provides coverage of local and regional news, events, issues, people, and industries.
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The Boston Globe
The Boston Globe (sometimes abbreviated as The Globe) is an American daily newspaper founded and based in Boston, Massachusetts, since its creation by Charles H. Taylor in 1872.
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The New York Times Best Seller list
The New York Times Best Seller list is widely considered the preeminent list of best-selling books in the United States.
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The New Yorker
The New Yorker is an American magazine of reportage, commentary, criticism, essays, fiction, satire, cartoons, and poetry.
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The Tech (newspaper)
The Tech, first published on November 16, 1881, is the campus newspaper at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology in Cambridge, Massachusetts.
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United States Army
The United States Army (USA) is the land warfare service branch of the United States Armed Forces.
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University of Nevada, Las Vegas
The University of Nevada, Las Vegas (UNLV) is an American public research university in the Las Vegas suburb of Paradise, Nevada.
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User guide
A user guide or user's guide, also commonly known as a manual, is a technical communication document intended to give assistance to people using a particular system.
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1950s quiz show scandals
The American quiz show scandals of the 1950s were a series of revelations that contestants of several popular television quiz shows were secretly given assistance by the show's producers to arrange the outcome of an ostensibly fair competition.
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References
[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Four_Horsemen_of_the_Apocalypse_(blackjack)
