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by Jun8 3370 days ago
The 37% solution to the Secretary Problem is derived by letting n (number of candidates) tend to infinity (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Secretary_problem#Deriving_the...). Most of us are not that lucky in love affairs.
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I've been on 300 first dates, Ive been with about 1/3rd of that many women. I still fucked up horribly.
I agree we aren't that lucky.I didn't know about derivation using n tends to infinity. Thanks for that.