For my unhitched friends

Apparently, mathematicians have been wracking their brains for centuries over the problem of the optimal probabilities in choosing a life partner. If you’re familiar with the same laws governing this, as say, gambling… then you’re probably familiar with the idea of the “hit me again” versus “stick” idea. Basically, should you take another card or hang on to what you have ?

The optimal number for this given a finite population of, say 100 life partners, would be 37… you should see 37 people and then choose the next partner if no better option has presented itself in the first 37. Math says so. Really. In fact, you can apply this to any number of potential life partners (as hard an estimate as that may be unless you live on a very small island or in the event of global holocaust) by dividing the potential number by e, the base of natural logarithms (approximately 2.72).

Unfortunately, it’s fairly mum on what to do if one of the first 37 was your optimal choice and you blew it.

So, how many more you got to go if you’re still out there ?…