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Lack of strong law for the Saint Petersburg paradox
The Saint Petersburg paradox can be formulated as follows: Suppose we have a lottery whose payout ${X}$ takes taking values in the powers of two ${2,2^2,2^3,\dots}$ with
$\displaystyle {\bf P}( X = 2^...
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