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I can recommend the book "Quantum Theory: Concepts and Methods" by (the late) Asher Peres. A Google search will point you to pdf versions.

It took me five minutes of reading to decide that this is a crackpot paper.

Reference, please?

I meant you should compare Orodruin's expression to your latest, i.e. sqrt[n*1/3*(1 - 1/3)] = sqrt[n*0.2222..].

Orodruin just simplified the formula for the case P=1/3. Plug in the same N in both your and Orodruin's expressions. Do you find a difference?

Freeman Dyson was appointed professor at IAS Princeton, where he spent almost all of his career: http://www.sns.ias.edu/dyson Also, regarding professors attending the forum here, Richard Gill https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Richard_D._Gill sometimes contributes. He told me that the forum's low...

Because it gave an excellent fit to the empirical black-body radiation curve. It was a combination of trial and error, and a stroke of genius. See also his autobiography: https://www.amazon.com/dp/0806530758/?tag=pfamazon01-20

Depends on what you mean by "exactly". I see no reason why it couldn't be simulated to arbitrary precision.

According to the rules of chess, a rook can be on any square no matter the colour.

Counterfactual definiteness (also known as "realism") is one of the two major assumptions in Bell's theorem, yes (the other being locality). Nothing particularly novel in that paper.

I guess N is the natural numbers. But is t supposed to be in N as well?

Yes, I think Arnold has a point here. The closest we come to an isolated system in this case is the Earth itself, and the experimenter going to Rome or Paris would not influence the Earth's center of gravity trajectory, nor its standard deviation.

3) seems to be something related to some discrete approximation to the Poisson distribution, not pertaing to the proper distribution per se. The other two are simply properties of the distribution. If they don't hold, the data aren't Poisson distributed in the first place.

Yes, but only if every data point in your sample of 30 are independent, and they all have the same distribution. It sounds like you have an analog signal that you are digitally sampling. If these samples are made with a high frequency (that is, with a short time interval between them), then...

To OP: To find the optimal stopping for this probem, you would also have to specify the cost of doing each test, and the costs of making a wrong decision (i.e., discarding an OK batch, or letting a faulty batch slip through).