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Summary:
In this paper an introduction to the theory of search, as developed in the previous papers of A. Rényi and the author, is given. Basic results of those papers are unified and summarized from a Bayesian point of view which is accepted throughout the paper. Some new results are established and a relation of the theory of search to the information theory is pointed out.
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