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Winning “Big” in the St. Petersburg Game

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We present a self-contained and easy to follow proof for the value of the probability of large gains of a player in the celebrated St. Petersburg game.

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  1. University of New Brunswick, Saint John, New Brunswick, E2K 2B5, Canada

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Translated from Matematicheskie Zametki, 2022, Vol. 111, pp. 746–751 https://doi.org/10.4213/mzm12985.

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Stoica, G. Winning “Big” in the St. Petersburg Game. Math Notes 111, 754–758 (2022). https://doi.org/10.1134/S0001434622050091

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