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THIS celebrated problem, which is first mentioned before 1708 in a letter from the younger Nicholas Bernoulli to Montmort, has been frequently discussed by Daniel Bernoulli (1730) and other eminent mathematicians. It may be briefly stated as follows:—
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LUPTON, S. The St. Petersburg Problem. Nature 41, 165–166 (1889). https://doi.org/10.1038/041165a0
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