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- From: your-email-addr@a1.mscf.upenn.edu (Jesse Goldman)
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- Subject: Finding best mate
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- Date: 4 Jan 93 17:54:43 GMT
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- Dear Mathematicians;
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- This weekend I saw an interview on T.V. with a mathematician who
- stated that if a woman assumes she is to have 100 suitors in her life then
- her best
- chances of finding an ideal mate would be to reject the first 37 and then
- choose the next one better than the preceeding 37.
- I am not a mathematician or physicist but I understand that this has
- something to do with e (root of natural log). Could any of you math dudes
- or dudettes explain this to me? Thanks in advance.
-
- Please post responses
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- Dirty part of Math =Physics
- Dirty part of Physics =Chemistry
- Dirty part of Chemistry =Biology
- Dirty part of Biology =Medicine
- .....No wonder I'm confused.
-
- Jesse Goldman M.D.
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