On Wed, Sep 12, 2012 at 12:02 PM, Donna Y <[email protected]> wrote:
> There is a min but no max.  You can calculate a 95% or 99% confidence 
> interval but there are possibilities where the one prisoner that turns off 
> the light never is chosen enough to switch it off 99 times. A Long Tail.

Yes, of course.  I kept track of min and max observed to get a rough
idea of the distribution (yes, it would have worked better if I had
drawn an histogram at the end, instead of only keep min and max)

Cheers
P.
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