Re: Carom billiards as a stochastic process

From: Mathieu Bouville (mbouvill_at_engin.umich.edu)
Date: 10/12/04 

Date: 11 Oct 2004 18:08:48 -0700

"*** T. Winter" <***.Winter@cwi.nl> wrote in message news:<I5F2DD.BtK@cwi.nl>...
> In article <20f01501.0410102253.666c338@posting.google.com> mbouvill@engin.umich.edu (Mathieu Bouville) writes:
> ...
> > What I am trying to do requires very little knowledge of the game. I
> > consider that with the balls in a given position, the shot has some
> > known probability to be successful.
>
> Perhaps, although I doubt it. But even *if* there are probabilities
> involved, the probability depends on the player.

Of course it depends on the player. I am looking for a general
formalism applicable to any player. Only parameters would depend on
the player. For instance in the simple case of a Bernoulli process,
the probability to score at least n points is p^n for anybody, what
changes for different players is the value of p not the analytical
form of the expression p^n.

Mathieu