Re: Need help conceptualizing the constant \"e\"
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...The answer is 1/e...
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I think you mean that the answer tends to 1/e as n approaches infinity. Lol mathaments. Btw, wiki thinks that Bernoulli was the first to "discover" e, and apparently he did it by considering continuously compounded interest. Of course, this could be wrong.
Here is a cooler problem, imo: show that the expected value of the # of people who get their hat back is 1, independent of n.
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