Talk:Eudaemons

Electric Shock
Maybe I'm missing something here, but I find the story of the electric shock a bit difficult to understand. It says:

"However, there were problems: in one case the insulation failed and the bettor received electric shocks from the solenoids. But she kept placing bets, so the observer, who in this case was Farmer, left the table, so that the bettor would be forced to leave as well. Afterwards it turned out that the solenoid had burned a hole into her skin."

It says that the bettor was the one receiving electric shocks, yet the observer got up and left the table. Why didn't the bettor just get up and leave the table if she was the one experiencing the shocks? How did the observer even know she was receiving shocks? Is it implying that the bettor knew she was receiving shocks but for some odd reason tried to push through the pain and the observer at some point decided it had gone too far and intervened? Lewdswap (talk) 11:56, 28 April 2015 (UTC)

Expected profit
The article says the profit per bet was 44%, yet this number is taken from Thorp's recollections about his and Shannon's system which they operated in 1961, some 17 years earlier than the subject of this article. I have seen some other place the number quoted as 20%. Someone who knows more should correct this. 2A02:587:4B84:DC55:E9B7:23EA:425F:8D6B (talk) 14:13, 29 March 2023 (UTC)