17 Dec
2003
17 Dec
'03
11:17 p.m.
At 09:48 PM 7/27/96 -0500, Igor Chudov @ home wrote:
Timothy C. May wrote:
While there is some chance that one will get to #20 and find that none of #8-20 were better than #1-7, this strategy is the best compromise between "committing too early" and "waiting too long."
This "some chance" is 1/e (for a very large number of women), obviously.
There is 1/e chance that the best woman will be in the first 1/e fraction of women.
Also, I would appreciate if someone specified what exactly the goal function is.
- Igor.
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