[metamemetics]

Roulette can be beaten by a shoe computer. Basically you tap your foot each time the ball passes a certain number. The computer uses the time between taps to compute the velocity of the ball, which is used to predict where it will stop. Then you bet on a quadrant of the wheel by the predicted stop.

This was first done by people from MIT I believe.

[metamemetics]

Excuse me, UCSC students in the 1970's. Those interested can read more here: http://physics.ucsc.edu/people/eudaemons/eudaemons.html

[lesterbuck]

The book about that group, The Eudaemonic Pie, is a great read:

http://www.amazon.com/Eudaemonic-Pie-Thomas-Bass/dp/05951423...

Recently I ran across another book about the same group, "The Predictors: How a Band of Maverick Physicists Used Chaos Theory to Trade Their Way to a Fortune on Wall Street"

[tlb]

A poorly written book about an interesting topic, I thought.

[nailer]

You'd no longer have the opportunity to place your bet by that time.

[dageroth]

that's quite brilliant, it should work probably much more reliable than our guessing.