Guess the larger number

DOI10.14708/MA.V44I1.1205MaRDI QIDQ5357645zbMATH OpenOpenAlexFDO

Authors Alexander Gnedin

Publication date 12 September 2017

Published in Mathematica Applicanda (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/1608.01899, http://qmro.qmul.ac.uk/xmlui/handle/123456789/16207

zbMATH Keywords

exchangeabilityprobability inequalitiesdominanceadmissibilityzero-sum gamesecretary problemCover's problem

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

2-person games (91A05) Probabilistic games; gambling (91A60)

Abstract: We discuss variations of the zero-sum game where Bob selects two distinct numbers, and Alice learns one of them to make a guess which of the numbers is the larger.

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