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Dederick 1 Matthew Dederick Professor Guhaniyogi AMS-80A 11/4/18 Movie Summary 3: Roulette Breaking Vegas Beat The Wheel Norman Packard thought of the idea of using physics to predict the outcome of any given spin. Packard started tests of this theory by taking a measurement of the ball’s velocity as the ball spins around the wheel. He does this by measuring the amount of time it takes for the ball to make a full rotation around the wheel and how much velocity is lost as the ball moves. This provides a level of predictability for every spin the ball makes to improve your odds of winning. After Packard recorded this data, he enlisted the help of his friend Doyne Farmer, another physics major, to aid in his calculations of roulette probability. Up until this point, the only way to improve the odds of winning in roulette was cheating. Packard and Doyne faced many obstacles during their efforts to find a way to predict roulette outcomes such as financial hardship in order to complete the project and scrutiny from the FBI regarding their ownership of a regulation roulette wheel suspecting illegal gambling. They eventually figured out that observing a given wheel for 30 minutes will provide enough information about the fixed properties of the wheel. Once the system for predicting the results was tested in a casino and confirmed to work, more people were recruited to participate in using this system in casinos. After assembling this team, they go to Las Vegas over summer to execute the system on a wider scale. After constant equipment malfunctions and team problems, the group quits with little profit to show for it. Although the system had flaws pertaining to its execution and the resources used by the group of college students, the fundamental math and computations were correct....