Timeline for Flipping coins on a budget
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| S Oct 28, 2013 at 20:08 | history | suggested | CommunityBot | CC BY-SA 3.0 |
align ifs in piecewise definitions
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| Sep 26, 2012 at 15:05 | comment | added | Douglas Zare | To prove that this is optimal for $n=\infty$ it suffices to show that for every $x$, there is no choice of an amount to spend which gives you a higher average value of $f$ on the next time. | |
| Sep 18, 2012 at 15:35 | comment | added | Timothy Chow | Thanks for the response. Your strategy is one that one of my colleagues also came up with. Maybe I should have mentioned this earlier, but anyway, like you, we were not able to prove rigorously that it was optimal. | |
| Sep 18, 2012 at 4:31 | history | answered | Julian Rosen | CC BY-SA 3.0 |