I'm not a proferssional mathematician but I think I do have a high level grasp of the principles of the BT paradox - I though it relied on being able to select an infinite number of points from the object. The earth has a finite number of atoms (or sub-atomic particles, or quarks... or.... )
Years ago when I was a kid our neighbour was a sparky working on a site building new residentials. He had a huge fight with his foreman over something that wasn;t his fault, he got so pissed that he cross-wired the meters for each pair of houses on the site he was working on that day so house A would be paying for house B's electrons and vice-versa.(easy to do in our brick built "semi-detatched" houses in the UK where each pair of houses is one physical building)
unless they've harnessed somehow harnessed the power of TQM (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Transactional_interpretation) then they would have known in advance we'd be looking. I think. Qunatum stuff maes my head hurt.
umm he bragged about it and also admitted to the police he did it so that's pretty much grounds for prosecution regardless of the video and eye-witness evidence.
He should be prosecuted for simply being one of the dumbest asses on the planet.
"it doesn't however influence the probability of the sex of the next child."
Except the problem doesn;t state that the son born on a Tuesday is the FIRST child. It could be the second, Actually the original prblem of "at least one of my two sons is a boy" is more like asking "I threw a coin up yesterday and also today, on at least one of the throws it landed up heads, what is the chance both of the throws landed up heads" giving the set {HH, HT, TH} of the 3 members, only one is HH so it's 1/3
""I have just tossed a 10 pence coin and it has come up heads, what is the probability that another coin toss will come up heads?""
Umm no, if you look at the original problem, "one of my 2 kinds is a boy, what's the probability both are boys" is like saying "Ive've tossed a coin twice, at least one of which was heads, what;s the probability that both were heads?" - so here the possibilities are H H / H T/ T H of which only one of the 3 is both heads so it's 1/3rd.
It's not saying, "the first guy was a boy - or in your analagy, the first coin toss was heads" - where you would be right, the chance of the second child being a boy, or the second coin toss being heads would be 50% - it's a different problem.
I can't understand why Americans say "I could care less" - the sentence makes no sense... what does it mean? I could care less if I tried? If I wanted to? It always seems to be used in the context of "I could NOT care less" or, "It doesn't bother me", "I'm not interested." It means the exact opposite though! Are you just too lazy to type the extra 3 characters? (n't)?
Any there American Etymologists around who can explain this?
ALL providers quite the offered bandwidth in megaBITS per second... so I don' understand your argument. How can using the standard measuring units be confusing?
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I'm not a proferssional mathematician but I think I do have a high level grasp of the principles of the BT paradox - I though it relied on being able to select an infinite number of points from the object. The earth has a finite number of atoms (or sub-atomic particles, or quarks... or.... )
easy - activate the pin number lock for your phone. It's a feature every phone has had for years.
work, I can FB at work without fear of my password being logged by the Overlords.
Years ago when I was a kid our neighbour was a sparky working on a site building new residentials. He had a huge fight with his foreman over something that wasn;t his fault, he got so pissed that he cross-wired the meters for each pair of houses on the site he was working on that day so house A would be paying for house B's electrons and vice-versa.(easy to do in our brick built "semi-detatched" houses in the UK where each pair of houses is one physical building)
unless they've harnessed somehow harnessed the power of TQM (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Transactional_interpretation) then they would have known in advance we'd be looking. I think. Qunatum stuff maes my head hurt.
8 fingers + 2 thumbs + 10 toes = 20 digits
Fixed.
No, not Tuesdays. If we're gonna ban any day, then it must be Mondays. I don't like Mondays.
Where the hell is our overdue 1080p on sub-40-inch TVs?
Umm on pretty much every new 32" tv? I searched a couple of companies in the UK and there's hundreds of 32" at 1080p
tan apples.
I prefer Green Apples personally
umm he bragged about it and also admitted to the police he did it so that's pretty much grounds for prosecution regardless of the video and eye-witness evidence.
He should be prosecuted for simply being one of the dumbest asses on the planet.
maybe RTFA before posting a wall of text? He admitted his guilt.
it's less than 50% - young girls/old women don;t need them and the male population is slightly greater than the female population.
"it doesn't however influence the probability of the sex of the next child."
Except the problem doesn;t state that the son born on a Tuesday is the FIRST child. It could be the second, Actually the original prblem of "at least one of my two sons is a boy" is more like asking "I threw a coin up yesterday and also today, on at least one of the throws it landed up heads, what is the chance both of the throws landed up heads" giving the set {HH, HT, TH} of the 3 members, only one is HH so it's 1/3
yes.
no, go read the article again. the solution DOES include the possiibility the the other child is also a boy born on a tuesday.
""I have just tossed a 10 pence coin and it has come up heads, what is the probability that another coin toss will come up heads?""
Umm no, if you look at the original problem, "one of my 2 kinds is a boy, what's the probability both are boys" is like saying "Ive've tossed a coin twice, at least one of which was heads, what;s the probability that both were heads?" - so here the possibilities are H H / H T/ T H of which only one of the 3 is both heads so it's 1/3rd.
It's not saying, "the first guy was a boy - or in your analagy, the first coin toss was heads" - where you would be right, the chance of the second child being a boy, or the second coin toss being heads would be 50% - it's a different problem.
"Also had movement on the erector"
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Huh?? I don't understand... what is this mysterious "switching off" operation that you perform on you rocmputer?
Nothing happens to the fork.
Now, HOW strong is the acid in your stomach compared to carbonic acid in coke? mmmK?
peace of news?
Most news is about war, not peace...
Oh, did you mean peice?
I can't understand why Americans say "I could care less" - the sentence makes no sense... what does it mean? I could care less if I tried? If I wanted to? It always seems to be used in the context of "I could NOT care less" or, "It doesn't bother me", "I'm not interested." It means the exact opposite though! Are you just too lazy to type the extra 3 characters? (n't)?
Any there American Etymologists around who can explain this?
ummm it's on general release 7th oct in the uk..
There's 14 episodes including the pilot.
Universe != USA (despite what George W thinks)
ALL providers quite the offered bandwidth in megaBITS per second... so I don' understand your argument. How can using the standard measuring units be confusing?