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A246671

Decimal expansion of Shepp's constant 'alpha', an optimal stopping constant associated with the case of a zero mean and unit variance distribution function.

8, 3, 9, 9, 2, 3, 6, 7, 5, 6, 9, 2, 3, 7, 2, 6, 8, 9, 6, 0, 3, 7, 7, 6, 9, 7, 7, 4, 2, 1, 8, 1, 5, 5, 6, 9, 3, 6, 1, 6, 2, 0, 6, 9, 8, 7, 0, 3, 9, 1, 2, 8, 5, 0, 4, 1, 5, 8, 2, 7, 2, 1, 6, 3, 6, 0, 9, 0, 8, 9, 6, 8, 6, 3, 9, 5, 3, 4, 6, 3, 8, 0, 6, 3, 8, 8, 0, 2, 0, 9, 6, 4, 6, 8, 0, 9, 7, 9, 9, 9, 9, 5, 8

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OFFSET

0,1

REFERENCES

Steven R. Finch, Mathematical Constants, Cambridge University Press, 2003, Section 5.15 Optimal stopping constants, p. 361.

LINKS

Table of n, a(n) for n=0..102.

Steven R. Finch, Errata and Addenda to Mathematical Constants. p. 45.

L. A. Shepp, Explicit Solutions to Some Problems of Optimal Stopping.

Eric Weisstein's MathWorld, Sultan's Dowry Problem.

Wikipedia, Secretary problem.

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