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Player 1 writes down any two distinct numbers on separate slips of paper. Player 2 randomly chooses one of these slips of paper and looks at the number. Player 2 must decide whether the number in his hand is the larger of the two numbers. He can be right with probability one-half. It seems absurd that he can do better.
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Cover, T.M. (1987). Pick the Largest Number. In: Cover, T.M., Gopinath, B. (eds) Open Problems in Communication and Computation. Springer, New York, NY. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4612-4808-8_43
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