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Pentashagon comments on The Doubling Box - Less Wrong Discussion

13 Post author: Mestroyer 06 August 2012 05:50AM

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Comment author: Pentashagon 06 August 2012 06:24:07PM 2 points [-]

This suggests a strategy; tile the universe with coins and flip each of them every day. If they all come up heads, open the box (presumably it's full of even more coins).

Comment author: Mestroyer 06 August 2012 11:35:00PM 0 points [-]

better yet, every day count one more integer toward the highest number you can think of, when you reach it, flip the coins. If they don't all come up heads, start over again.