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Formally Modeling Dreidel, the Sequel
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The problem with PRISM is that it is absurdly inexpressive: it's a thin abstraction for writing giant stochastic matrices and lacks basic affordances like lists or functions. To fix both of these things, I thought I'd have to treat PRISM as a compilation target, writing a program that took a player count and output the corresponding model. PRISM has over a hundred settings that affect model checking, with descriptions like "Pareto curve threshold" and "Use Backwards Pseudo SOR".
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