2 papers
math.HO2023
A Guide to the Risk-Averse Gambler and Resolving the St. Petersburg Paradox Once and For All
Lucy Martinez, Doron Zeilberger
We use three kinds of computations: simulation, numeric, and symbolic, to guide risk-averse gamblers in general, and offer particular advice on how to resolve the famous St. Peters…
math.CO2023
How many Dice Rolls Would It Take to Reach Your Favorite Kind of Number?
Lucy Martinez, Doron Zeilberger
Noga Alon and Yaakov Malinovsky recently studied the following game: you start at 0, and keep rolling a fair standard die, and add the outcomes until the sum happens to be prime. W…