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Knowing When to Stop


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This is a classic! It is a masterpiece in
exposition.
BTW, in the Chow-Robbins coin-tossing game, the statement that tail-head-head is a STOP is in error. It is a GO!
(if you expect to live long enough)
see the "footnote"
http://www.math.rutgers.edu/~zeilberg/mamarim/mamarimhtml/stop.html

posted by Doron Zeilberger
July 10, 2009

 

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