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Optimal stopping is a mathematical strategy used to decide the best time to take a particular action to maximize reward or minimize cost, often applied in scenarios where decisions are irreversible and opportunities are sequential. It balances the trade-off between exploring available options and exploiting the best one found so far, epitomized by the '37% rule' in the context of the secretary problem.
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