Expected trials under the matching rounds problem

Jim Farmer

Expected trials under the matching rounds problem

Jim Farmer

Department of Applied Finance

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Abstract

In which an argument with religious fundamentalists inspires an elegant expected number of trials exercise based on a generalisation of the matching problem.

Original language	English
Pages (from-to)	29-37
Number of pages	9
Journal	Australian Senior Mathematics Journal
Volume	28
Issue number	1
Publication status	Published - 2014

Keywords

Probability measures
Induction (Logic)
Mathematics
Australia

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Expected trials under the matching rounds problem

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