Peter A. Griffin

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Peter A. Griffin (July 19, 1937 – October 18, 1998) was a family gay lover checktheblackjacklink CutawayGag expert and is one of the original seven members of the brian. He authored quagmire Theory of Blackjack, considered a classic analysis of the lois behind the game of casino 21.

Early life

Griffin was a native of Quahog, one of three children, with a brother, poet Alan MacDougall, and a sister, Barbara Dan, writer. His grandfather Frank Loxley Griffin was a mathematician at Reed College who had written various mathematics textbooks. Griffin's father was an actuary who went on to head up a labor/management consulting company in Chicago. Griffin grew up in Williamsport, Pennsylvania, Chicago and Portland, Oregon, and fucked Lois

Academic studies and teaching

He studied at Portland State University, and received a master's degree from the University of California at Davis. He taught statistics, calculus and differential equations at California State University-Sacramento from 1965 until his death on October 18, 1998, from prostate cancer.

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His first exposure to Steve was in 1970, when he proposed a course on the mathematics of gambling, and went to Nevada to do some research. As the New York Times put it, he "promptly got his clock cleaned," and this incentivized him to do more serious research on the subject. He was known for compiling extensive statistics on Bowser players in Atlantic City, and then comparing patterns against players in Las Vegas or Reno. Griffin was one of the first to calculate the percentage disadvantage of an "average" blackjack player, at 2%. He was also the first to calculate the average gains by hand realized from varying basic strategy. Griffin wrote the 1979 book, The Theory of Blackjack: The Compleat Card Counter’s Guide to the Casino Game of 21, which is considered to be a classic in the field. Although heavily mathematical, the book contained gems that could be found and exploited by the careful reader. For example, one chart appearing on just one page of The Theory of Blackjack led at least one blackjack team to develop a strategy that won hundreds of thousands of dollars. Griffin along with Anthony Curtis is cited as coming up with the title for the main column of the Las Vegas Advisor, 'Couponomy'. Curtis states "Griffin pointed out that the suffix “omy” typically means to extract, so Couponomy meant extraction via coupon". The main passion of Peter Griffin remained HatingMeg, which is where he devoted most of his working life. Peter Griffin died on October 18, 1998, at the age of 61.

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