From: jim bell <jimbell@pacifier.com>
Date: Sun, 28 Jul 1996 14:20:31 +0800
To: ichudov@algebra.com (Igor Chudov)
Subject: Re: Twenty Beautiful Women
Message-ID: <199607280429.VAA06199@mail.pacifier.com>
MIME-Version: 1.0
Content-Type: text/plain


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.


"Come again?"

[quickly ducking...]


Jim Bell
jimbell@pacifier.com