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Comment author: CoffeeStain 30 September 2013 03:56:35AM 3 points [-]

The expected value for "number of days lived by Sleeping Beauty" is an infinite series that diverges to infinity. If you think this is okay, then the Ultimate Sleeping Beauty problem isn't badly formed. Otherwise...