When presented with the Monty Hall problem, I could not understand it without writing a program to help me. I guess that puts me in the good company of Paul Erdos, according to Wikipedia... -- Mark Buda <[email protected]> I get my monkeys for nothing and my chimps for free.
On Sat, Nov 24, 2018, 6:58 PM John Clark <[email protected] wrote: > On Sat, Nov 24, 2018 at 5:01 PM Brent Meeker <[email protected]> wrote: > > *> The best intuition pump to solve the Monte Hall problem is to imagine >> that there are 100 doors and Monte opens all the doors except the one you >> chose and one other....do you switch?* > > > 3 doors will do. If you follow the switch strategy the only way you would > end up losing is if your original guess was correct, and there was only one > chance in 3 of that, so if you switch you have 2 chances in 3 of winning. > > John K Clark > > >> -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "Everything List" group. > To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an > email to [email protected]. > To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. > Visit this group at https://groups.google.com/group/everything-list. > For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout. > -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Everything List" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. Visit this group at https://groups.google.com/group/everything-list. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
