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The "Beautiful Woman on the Beach" Problem (The Problem of Finding a Marriage Partner)

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There are n beautiful women lined up on the beach. They are ranked, but you don’t know their rankings as you meet them one by one.
Which one should you ask out? The display shows n-1 people, but the rank of the last one is obvious, right?
The average rank is the final expected value. As n approaches infinity, it becomes 3.86950...
Number of Beautiful Women
People

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