“ This supplied enough information for his small pocket laptop to signal
him again (with a faucet to his leg) where he should place his
wager. Albert Hibbs and Roy Walford, two Chicago University college students, documented (and capitalized on) irregularities again as 1940's.
Time Magazine documented the phenomenon within the 1950's.
In 1969, Edward Thorp wrote about how to foretell the result of roulette for Assessment
of the Worldwide Statistical Institute. Thorp decided
that if a roulette wheel is tilted, which based on his findings one
third of Las Vegas roulette wheels have been, it could improve ones odds by 15%.
With the aid of the small pc like the one Dr. Muller's colleague used,
it could improve ones odds by a further 44%.
In the late 1970's, using Thorp's paper as a starting point,
Doyne Farmer, Norman Packard and others capitalized too. ”