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In 1961 Edward Thorp and Claude Shannon made a pocket sized computer that predicted the roulette wheel. Claude, with the computer, would be by the wheel while writing the numbers on a pad. Thorp would sit at a betting table with an earpiece and receiver. With it they racked up $8K.

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