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Not specifically a solution to the St. Petersburg Paradox because, well, it's not a solution to the most general formulation of it (and Bernoulli admits as much in his paper, IIRC).

At least the way I read Bernoulli's paper, it was more of a general musing on how to reduce risk and make insurance decisions.




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