My paper will be peer-reviewed at no cost to me but, if it is accepted for publication, I may or may not have to pay MDPI an “article processing charge” of about $530.\u00a0 There is some doubt as to whether the APC will be subsidized by Knowledge Unlatched<\/a>, a collective effort of international libraries to support and encourage open-access research.<\/p>\n Open-access is important.\u00a0 Lacking university library affiliation, it was hard for me to do a proper literature search on the Showcase Round problem.\u00a0 I believe I did find most of the relevant work, but who knows, an obscure paper in the Albanian Journal of Mathematics<\/a> may have solved this problem years ago.\u00a0 Open access = shared knowledge = anti-elitism.<\/p>\n If MDPI accepts my paper for publication but my article processing charge is not covered, I suppose I will pay for it myself.\u00a0 In for a dime, in for a dollar<\/a>, my brother-in-law says.<\/p>\n Below is an image of the first page of my 24-page paper.\u00a0 You can read the rest of it here<\/a>. You can also use my online showcase bid calculator<\/a> to review your own bidding strategies, in case you are lucky enough to be a contestant on The Price is Right<\/em>.<\/p>\n As for me, I’m ready to start painting again!<\/p>\n It is finished.\u00a0 Finally. I am ready to submit my research paper on bidding strategies for the Showcase Round on The Price is Right television show.\u00a0 I have been working on this problem for over two years and I started … Continue reading ![\"\"](\"http:\/\/chcollins.com\/100Billion\/wp-content\/uploads\/tpir-pageone.jpg\")
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