E313 -- Sur l'avantage du banquier au jeu de Pharon

(On the advantage to the banker in the game of Pharaon)

Summary:

According to C. G. J. Jacobi, a treatise with this title was presented to the Berlin Academy on February 27, 1755, and another (or the same?) on July 20, 1758.

Publication:

Originally published in Memoires de l'academie des sciences de Berlin 20, 1766, pp. 144-164
Opera Omnia: Series 1, Volume 7, pp. 57 - 78

Documents Available:

Original publication: E313
E313 can be viewed or downloaded from Digitalisierte Akademieschriften und Schriften zur Geschichte der Königlich Preußischen Akademie der Wissenschaften, which includes serial publications of the Prussian Academy of Science in the 18th and 19th Centuries.
Richard Pulskamp has put together a fantastic page on Euler's Probability & Statistics, including a lot of interesting background and historical work. The page includes a translation of E313.

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