Timeline for The parity of the maximal number of consecutive 1s in the binary expansion of an integer
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| Aug 19, 2022 at 7:03 | comment | added | Aditya Guha Roy | @BCLC complementing professor Tao's comment: you may look at his blogpost terrytao.wordpress.com/2015/01/04/… or the notes at people.math.ethz.ch/~kowalski/probabilistic-number-theory.pdf for more details on probabilistic number theory. | |
| Aug 6, 2022 at 20:58 | comment | added | Timothy Chow | I am reminded of the Dance Marathon Problem, which also features a kind of extreme value problem, and a limit that seems like it should exist, but doesn't. | |
| Aug 6, 2022 at 12:53 | history | edited | Terry Tao | CC BY-SA 4.0 |
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| Aug 6, 2022 at 12:48 | comment | added | Terry Tao | @BCLC Probabilistic number theory has been a thing for almost a century. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Probabilistic_number_theory | |
| Aug 6, 2022 at 12:43 | history | edited | Terry Tao | CC BY-SA 4.0 |
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| Aug 6, 2022 at 9:34 | vote | accept | Jakub Konieczny | ||
| Aug 6, 2022 at 7:07 | comment | added | user196574 | On the name of that random variable, it looks like a discrete version of Gumbel and is discussed in arxiv.org/abs/1410.7568 as a candidate extreme-value distribution for data taking integer values. | |
| Aug 6, 2022 at 0:39 | comment | added | BCLC | oh using probability to prove a number theory result? or did the question already have some probability in it? | |
| Aug 5, 2022 at 23:43 | history | edited | Terry Tao | CC BY-SA 4.0 |
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| Aug 5, 2022 at 23:37 | history | answered | Terry Tao | CC BY-SA 4.0 |