Timeline for Deciding when to stop searching for a new type of shell on a beach?
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| Mar 16, 2022 at 3:47 | history | edited | user44143 |
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| Mar 16, 2022 at 3:19 | answer | added | usul | timeline score: 4 | |
| Mar 15, 2022 at 22:16 | comment | added | Gerry Myerson | Don't stop searching; just move to a different part of the beach, which may have a very different shell population. | |
| Mar 15, 2022 at 19:49 | history | became hot network question | |||
| Mar 15, 2022 at 17:48 | comment | added | Steven Stadnicki | While I agree with Iosif's answer that it's hard to say when to stop since it's not clear what your stopping criteria really are, I think it's worth noting that this is pretty close to a generalization of the Coupon Collector's Problem. | |
| Mar 15, 2022 at 14:18 | answer | added | Iosif Pinelis | timeline score: 6 | |
| Mar 15, 2022 at 11:11 | history | edited | Att Righ | CC BY-SA 4.0 |
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| S Mar 15, 2022 at 11:05 | history | asked | Att Righ | CC BY-SA 4.0 |