The St. Petersburg Paradox: Daniel Bernoulli’s 1738 Answer to an Infinite Expected Value, and Why the Long-Term Equity Investor Should Not Pay an Unbounded Price for an Unbounded Story

Editorial diagram of the St. Petersburg game: payoff bars doubling from 1 to 64 ducats while probabilities halve, with a gold expectation arrow that never ends

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