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Well, that's pretty obvious. If it involves an infinite sum, but you only have n people, you don't quite get to that infinity-th guy ;)
by andreyf 16y ago
Well, that's pretty obvious. If it involves an infinite sum, but you only have n people, you don't quite get to that infinity-th guy ;)
- tel 16y agoThe answer suggested that even the expected value is never going to be 1/2 but instead something similar to 1/2-1/(4k) for k families which stop having children after the first boy. So, it's a bit more sophisticated than that involving situations where you test the average percentage of an infinite number of islands with k families each.