Yes, people some times live up to 120 years. You should start at 60.
Abbott: “So say you’re 40 and you like a girl that’s 10. Well you’re really too old for her because you’re 4x her age. So let’s say you wait 5years. Now you’re 45 and she’s 15, so you’re only 3x as old as her, but that’s still a bit much, so you wait another 15years and now you’re 60 and she’s 30. Only half your age now.
How long do you have to wait till you’re both the same age?”
Costello: “Well 4 then 3 then 2… at this rate she’d better be willing to wait for me too.”
Abbott: “what do you mean?”
Costello: “Going like this, eventually she’ll be older than me and she better wait for me to catch up.”
Abbott: “Why would she wait for you?”
Costello: “WELL I WAITED FOR HER!”
What, and then go 37.5? 24 and 48 are right there.
32 is half human life expectancy, and a power of 2.
Obviously you should use an exponential search, assuming you don’t know the age of the oldest human.
120
Yes, do it in reverse. Ask her if she’s 25 first, then if she’s 50
What you want is a distribution-aware contextual binary search. With whatever information you have (appearance, personality, vocabulary, etc), you can come up with a probability distribution in the space of possible ages and start your guess with the value at the 50th percentile. Then depending on whether the true age is higher or lower, your next guess will be either the 25th or 75th percentile. Rinse and repeat.
In reality, the way most people intuitively do agree guessing is already an approximation of this procedure.
There’s no right answer to that question. The only winning move is not to play.
Gotta follow Price is Right rules. Closest without going over.
binary search still works fine, you just need a function probability then you cut at the median, and then rucurse into the slices
Watch out, starting at 50 for binary search will fail if they are 100+ years old. Stay woke.
lol I just realized that everytime I play guessing numbers I do this
