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victorqribeiro
googol
JavaScript2019–2019
victorqribeiro / googol

googol

Googol Game or "You should learn when to quit". A JavaScript game.

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REPOSITORY AT A GLANCE

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What it is

Googol Game or "You should learn when to quit". A JavaScript game.

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Where it is used

No documented product use has been verified yet.

What people are saying

I love the fact that you named it Victor Game, but I'm not the one who created it. I got the whole thing from vsauce2, as I explained on https://github.com/victorqribeiro/googol

atum47 used a recommendation phrase. One indexed comment matches. This is a phrase match, not a verdict.

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This week on Hacker News

Nov 7–Nov 14 UTC · Direct repository links and separately labeled related project stories. Indexed through 11/14/2026, 5:04:57 PM UTC.

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Mentions over time

HN mentions by month5 dated mentions

Observed mentions: 2019-03-29 03:06:52 UTC to 2019-12-11 10:03:00 UTC.

01232019-03-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2019-04-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 1 mentions; 1 submissions, 0 commentsMar 20192019-04-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2019-05-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 0 mentions; 0 submissions, 0 comments2019-05-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2019-06-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 0 mentions; 0 submissions, 0 comments2019-06-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2019-07-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 0 mentions; 0 submissions, 0 comments2019-07-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2019-08-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 0 mentions; 0 submissions, 0 commentsJul 20192019-08-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2019-09-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 1 mentions; 1 submissions, 0 comments2019-09-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2019-10-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 0 mentions; 0 submissions, 0 comments2019-10-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2019-11-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 0 mentions; 0 submissions, 0 comments2019-11-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2019-12-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 0 mentions; 0 submissions, 0 comments2019-12-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2020-01-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 3 mentions; 1 submissions, 2 commentsDec 2019

Counts come from the repository’s dated source evidence. Index cutoff: 2026-11-02 08:16:59 UTC.

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Mar 20192019-03-01 00:00:00 UTC2019-04-01 00:00:00 UTC110
Apr 20192019-04-01 00:00:00 UTC2019-05-01 00:00:00 UTC000
May 20192019-05-01 00:00:00 UTC2019-06-01 00:00:00 UTC000
Jun 20192019-06-01 00:00:00 UTC2019-07-01 00:00:00 UTC000
Jul 20192019-07-01 00:00:00 UTC2019-08-01 00:00:00 UTC000
Aug 20192019-08-01 00:00:00 UTC2019-09-01 00:00:00 UTC110
Sep 20192019-09-01 00:00:00 UTC2019-10-01 00:00:00 UTC000
Oct 20192019-10-01 00:00:00 UTC2019-11-01 00:00:00 UTC000
Nov 20192019-11-01 00:00:00 UTC2019-12-01 00:00:00 UTC000
Dec 20192019-12-01 00:00:00 UTC2020-01-01 00:00:00 UTC312

What Hacker News says

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GistNoesis·Dec 7, 2019
The distribution chosen here is ~ uniform for the number of digits. (https://github.com/victorqribeiro/googol/blob/master/js/main... ) This is not the same hypothesis as the problem stated in the video. The video talks about the "secretary problem". In this problem you know nothing about the distribution. You just know that the number are ordered. Here because you know the distribution you can do better by using a strategy which choose to stop depending on the value of the number you have so far. For example if at the 15th pick you get a number with 99 digit, you can safely assume that it is better to stop now (every time you pick you have only a ~1% chance of finding a 99-digit number needed to do better so keeping it means you win (99/100)^(50-16) = 70%, whereas the non-exploitable strategy (i.e. optimal strategy for the secretary prob
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lem) 50/e=18 will tell you to keep going and you would lose 70% of the times). For the secretary problem the theoretical way to sample the number is to set it up as a game where the first player plays the game and the second pick the numbers adversely so that the first doesn't win. A good strategy for the second player is to pick a distribution from a big set of varied distributions, and sample the number from this distribution.
In Show HN: Learn When to Quit

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