Timeline for Sum of die until bust expected value
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| Oct 27, 2023 at 21:18 | comment | added | Henry | I did the same as Mike Earnest, and assumed you would stop at a very high level, saw that that give poor results until you took the money starting from $35$ or $36$ and then I read the corresponding expectation at the start. | |
| Oct 27, 2023 at 20:24 | comment | added | user | @Henry Where one can read on your method? | |
| Oct 27, 2023 at 17:37 | answer | added | Mike Earnest | timeline score: 2 | |
| Oct 27, 2023 at 16:01 | comment | added | Henry | My method of finding the $35$ gave an expected gain from the start with this strategy of about $14.215$ while your $(\frac56)^5 \cdot 35\approx 14.066$ | |
| Oct 27, 2023 at 15:45 | history | asked | shrizzy | CC BY-SA 4.0 |