http://www.willamette.edu/cla/math/articles/marilyn.htm
Yeah, we can add a bunch of responses from this forum to the list. Tyson Mao MSC #631 California Institute of Technology On Dec 28, 2005, at 10:15 AM, aznseashell wrote: > If host is standing at a podium away from the three doors and opens > them by means of a hidden switch, you don't have this additional > information. This is supposed to be a probability problem; stop > turning it into something it's not. > > Shelley > > > --- In [email protected], Rune Wesström > <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> >> A lot of intuition! >> You guess on door #1. The host is staying in front of door #3. Door > #2 is 2 meters away from him, nevertheless he opens that door. What > would you expect to find behind door #3? A goat?! (Let us exclude > double-crossing!). >> ----- Original Message ----- >> From: "Stefan Pochmann" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >> To: <[email protected]> >> Sent: Wednesday, December 28, 2005 3:47 PM >> Subject: [Speed cubing group] Re: (Off topic)3 doors... >> >> >> Changing wins if and only if you initially chose the wrong door, i.e. >> two times of three. >> >> Can you explain why your suggestion makes this wrong? >> >> Cheers! >> Stefan >> >> --- In [email protected], Rune Wesström <rune. >> [EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >>> >>> In real life the host is Not staying totally symmetrically in >> relation to the doors. (He is right-handed Or left-handed. Maybe he >> has to take a halfstep to open a certain door etc.). If he now opens >> the "easiest" door, Not changing wins more often than one time of >> three. If he opens the other door, changing will win more often than >> two times of three. >> >> >> >> >> >> >> >> >> Yahoo! Groups Links >> > > > > > > > > > Yahoo! Groups Links > > > > > > ------------------------ Yahoo! Groups Sponsor --------------------~--> Get fast access to your favorite Yahoo! Groups. Make Yahoo! your home page http://us.click.yahoo.com/dpRU5A/wUILAA/yQLSAA/MXMplB/TM --------------------------------------------------------------------~-> Yahoo! Groups Links <*> To visit your group on the web, go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/speedsolvingrubikscube/ <*> To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] <*> Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to: http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/
