The equal-slope conjecture for Cookie Monster losing positions
The equal-slope conjecture for Cookie Monster losing positions
Let and denote the coordinates of the losing positions of the forms and , respectively. Here, the pairs are compared in their natural order, and the slope of each graph is represented by the ratio of its second coordinate to its first coordinate. Equal-slope conjecture. On average, the graphs of against and against have the same slope, that is
This is an empirical conjecture about the structure of losing positions in the Cookie Monster Problem; the source provides no proof or resolution.
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Primary source
Megan Belzner, “Emptying Sets: The Cookie Monster Problem”, arXiv:1304.7508 (2013).
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