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This type of approach is called protectionism, the Wikipedia article is pretty good and goes into the implications of it: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Protectionism

Although upon further thinking, you could then sprinkle in some binomial searches to abuse the uniformity. So the -0.64$ is merely a lower bound.

That approach would still leave you weak to always picking 1 or 100. Without proof, I believe the optimal guessing strategy would perform equal (on average) for every number, to no…

I wonder if there is a name for this. Antimetabole comes to mind but that usually requires two clauses. I suppose it is a "chiastic pattern" which is a more broad definition, which…

There actually is a sextuple star system in the night sky. Castor looks like a single star but actually consists of three binary stars: two of them in a binary system that is itsel…