here’s the ultimate shortcut to these kinds of problems: when in doubt, try something with e or, in this case, 1/e. this strategy also applies to other games and works more often than you’d think.
Dmitrii Kovanikov
Dmitrii Kovanikov18.6.2025
Quant interview question: You press a button that gives your randomly uniformly distributed number between $0 and $100K Each time you press, you have two choices: 1. Stop and take this amount of money 2. Try again You can try 10 times total. When do you stop?
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