| Title: | Mathematics at DEC |
| Moderator: | RUSURE::EDP |
| Created: | Mon Feb 03 1986 |
| Last Modified: | Fri Jun 06 1997 |
| Last Successful Update: | Fri Jun 06 1997 |
| Number of topics: | 2083 |
| Total number of notes: | 14613 |
A friend in Japan sent me this a long time ago. Please don't haggle over assumptions; just make the obvious ideal ones (point size cookie, point size person, etc.) Avery > Newsgroups: sci.math > Path: decvax!mcnc!uvaarpa!haven!rutgers!apple!bloom-beacon!math.mit.edu > From: [email protected] (Dale R. Worley) > Groups: sci.math > Subject: Problem > Message-ID: <[email protected]> > Date: 17 Sep 89 03:21:58 GMT > Sender: [email protected] > Lines: 9 > > A cookie is hidden somewhere on the real line, randomly with a > gaussian distribution (mean 0, s.d. 1). You are flown in by > helicopter to a point on the line of your choosing. You can walk in > either direction on the line at a constant rate, and can turn around > when you choose. What strategy minimizes the expected time to find > the cookie? > > Dale > [email protected] -- Hitoshi Doi [email protected] | [email protected] | decwrl!jrdvax.enet!doi
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| 1342.1 | chomp chomp munch munch COOKIE!! :-) | GUESS::DERAMO | Dan D'Eramo | Fri Nov 30 1990 13:44 | 3 |
See topic 1122. :-)
Dan
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| 1342.2 | Woops! Should I delete .0? | DECWET::BISHOP | Yakudoshi! | Fri Nov 30 1990 14:08 | 0 |
| 1342.3 | JARETH::EDP | Always mount a scratch monkey. | Mon Dec 03 1990 08:55 | 9 | |
Re .2:
I suggest leaving this topic here. I think it is beneficial to direct
newcomers to interesting problems (which any recurring problem must
be), and oldtimers may appreciate the memory too, or even see something
new in the problem.
-- edp
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