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Old 04-14-2003, 01:54 PM
Graham Graham is offline
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Default Re: An even better proposition

"EV = $1 + $1 + $1 + ...

This goes on infinitely. That EV looks like summing to infinite $$$."

Looks infinite if we sum these occurrences. But we only play the game once, don't we, not an infinite number of times. We only get one of them, so we're back to $0.99, aren't we?

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