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An interesting probability game (mindyourdecisions.com)
3 points by strategy on Nov 16, 2010 | hide | past | favorite | 1 comment


"some" means "any":

Bob tells Alice to draw repeatedly from the uniform distribution on [0,1] until her current draw is less than any previous draw, and he will pay her $n, where n is the number of draws. What is the average value of this game for Alice?




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