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The authors solve the minimax-optimal secretary problem - win if best - where the infimum is taken over D and the supremum over all stopping times. They derive the value explicitly (Theorem A), give the minimax-optimal stop rule (Theorem B) and the distribution yielding the value (Theorem C).    The authors' results show several interesting features: Firstly, the minimax-optimal distribution in this model (Presman-Sonin model) is unique. Then the optimal value tends to zero like 1/log(n) as n grows. (Samuels' concise argument suffices to show that c/log(n) is a lower bound for some \\(c<1.)\\) Both features contrast the 1/e-law for the model where options arrive independently according to the same continuous arrival time distribution, where this value is 1/e, which is achieved, among others, by \\(P(N=\\infty)=1.\\) Thirdly, the value is an expression in which each term has its own probabilistic interpretation, but the whole expression is definitely difficult to interpret. 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