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From: steve@jplgodo.UUCP (Steve Schlaifer x3171 156/224)
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Subject: Re: Is it logical to make random decisions?
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Date: Tue, 25-Mar-86 14:20:29 EST
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Summary: the compleat strategyst

In article <2014@brl-smoke.ARPA>, gwyn@brl-smoke.UUCP writes:
> Yes, logical play in a two-player, zero-sum, discrete, finite,
> perfect-information, non-cooperative* game in general actually
> REQUIRES the use of a device for making a weighted random choice
> among several alternative pure strategies.  A good, although
> rather dated, elementary introduction to this subject can be
> found in "The Compleat Strategist", written long ago by someone
> (whose name I have unfortunately forgotten) from the Rand Corp.
> 
The revised edition of "The Compleat Strategyst" written by J. D. Williams 
was published by McGraw-Hill in 1966.  It was from a RAND corporation research
study.  Copyright dates are given as 1954 and 1966 RAND corporation.
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