Blackwell, David The square-root game. (English) Zbl 0988.91004 Bruss, F. Thomas (ed.) et al., Game theory, optimal stopping, probability and statistics. Papers in honor of Thomas S. Ferguson. Beachwood, OH: IMS, Institute of Mathematical Statistics. IMS Lect. Notes, Monogr. Ser. 35, 35-37 (2000). Summary: The author gives an elementary proof of the following: “The absolute \(1/2\) moment of the beta \((1/4,1/4)\) distribution \(t\) is independent of \(t\) for \(0<t<1\)”.For the entire collection see [Zbl 0971.00065]. MSC: 91A10 Noncooperative games 91A05 2-person games Keywords:beta distribution; two person game; Richardson extrapolation PDFBibTeX XMLCite \textit{D. Blackwell}, IMS Lect. Notes, Monogr. Ser. 35, 35--37 (2000; Zbl 0988.91004)