OFFSET
1,2
LINKS
W. M. Boyce, On a simple optimal stopping problem, Discr. Math., 5 (1973), 297-312.
L. A. Shepp, Explicit solutions to some problems of optimal stopping, Ann. Math. Statist. 40 (1969) 993-1010.
EXAMPLE
a(5)=7 since if you have 5 plus balls and 7 minus balls, your expected gain in the Shepp Urn game is still positive, namely 0.15, but if you have 8 minus balls, the expectation is zero, so you quit.
CROSSREFS
KEYWORD
nonn
AUTHOR
Kafung Mok, Apr 24 2015
STATUS
approved