Feynman-Smoluchowski ratchet

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Lighting the way with Parrondo’s paradox

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In science, paradoxes often appear when familiar rules are pushed into unfamiliar territory. One of them is Parrondo’s paradox, a curious mathematical result showing that when two losing strategies ar…