The equal-slope conjecture for Cookie Monster losing positions

Let pi0,qi0p^0_i,q^0_i and pi1,qi1p^1_i,q^1_i denote the coordinates of the losing positions of the forms {0,pi0,qi0}\{0,p^0_i,q^0_i\} and {1,pi1,qi1}\{1,p^1_i,q^1_i\}, 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 pi0p^0_i against qi0q^0_i and pi1p^1_i against qi1q^1_i have the same slope, that is

qi0pi0qi1pi1.\frac{q^0_i}{p^0_i}\approx\frac{q^1_i}{p^1_i}.

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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Megan Belzner, “Emptying Sets: The Cookie Monster Problem”, arXiv:1304.7508 (2013).

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