The 37 rules of love, also called the 37% rule, were asked by the mathematician Merrill M. Flood in 1949? First put forward, this problem was named "fiancee problem" by him.
37% rule (1)
Suppose a simple experiment first.
Suppose you have three objects to choose blindly, then you have a one-third chance to choose the best one.
How to improve the probability of selecting excellent objects?
Pick any one first. Whether he is good or not, we will give him up and choose the second one. If the second one is better than the first one, we will choose the second one. Otherwise, we will choose the third option.
In this case, in six situations, we will have a half chance to choose the best lover, a third chance to choose the middle lover, and only one sixth chance to choose the worst lover. Although it looks bad, it's much better than your blind choice.
37% rule (2)
Now let's expand the number from three to n.
Suppose there are n suitors, you have to reject the n/e person and wait for the next one who is better than these people.
Suppose you will meet 30 suitors. First, turn down the first 30/e ≈ 30/2.718 ≈1,and start with 12 suitors. Once you find more suitors than the previous 1 1
Since 1/e is equal to about 37%, this love solution is also called the 37% rule.
However, there is a small problem with the 37% rule: if the best candidate is already among these 37% people, you will never meet a better one after missing these 37% people. In other words, you will have a 37% chance of "quitting" or eventually being forced to choose the last suitor.
The 37% rule is "measured"!
How effective is the 37% rule? We wrote a program on the computer to simulate the process of choosing by using the 37% rule when n = 30 (if you have never accepted a suitor, you will automatically choose the last suitor). The fewer the number of boys, the more times, and the number of boys with 30 represents the best choice. The program was run 10000 times, and the best boy was selected about 4000 times, which shows that the 37% rule is really effective.
So some people say: First love is a stepping stone to love. You think you have found true love, but in fact you are just a stepping stone to others!
37% rule (3)
I believe many friends have such confusion: if I have a suitor, am I still single?
Don't worry, at this time we have a third method: when someone wants you, say yes decisively, because my mother taught us from an early age that ugly people should be shot before it is too late, or they will become one-handed dogs.
Today's love rules are here, but we have to say again that feelings can never be calculated by calculation. As long as you really like them, work hard. He (she) is not necessarily the best, but it must be the most suitable for you. Life is too short, why not try it?