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Game Theory 5.0/10

St. Petersburg Paradox

A casino flips a fair coin until heads appears. If heads appears on flip n, you win $2^n. What is the expected value of this game in dollars?

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Source: Posed by Nicolas Bernoulli (1713); the utility resolution is due to Daniel Bernoulli (1738). Statement written for AxiomIQ.