After a host opens one of the two doors, he does so with FULL knowledge! He will not open a prize door by tossing a coin, he will always open a door with a goat. This is EXTREMELY important clue to the puzzle!
Actually, no it's not. Even if he opened a door randomly, those times in which he revealed the goat will still give you the 2/3 result. By switching, the only time you don't get the car is when you chose it initially, and that is obviously a 1/3 event.
Note: If he chooses a door randomly, and you can't switch to the door he opened, then overall you're 50/50, but in the case where he showed you a goat you're 2/3.
I've practiced a lot, and I'm really good at rolling a pair of dice. So good, in fact, that I can usually roll a six and an eight before I roll two sevens.
Since the three player game offers a 75% win rate, that would obviously be the minimum, since the team, if unaware of a better strategy, could always pretend it's the three player game (players 4-n always pass and are ignored by the first three).
So you thought the players could say out loud what colors they see? And then you thought you needed some clever strategy for working out what color had you had?
When I saw "Ask Robert Young" I thought "The guy from My Three Sons?" Then the next line was "Yes, that Bob Young." and I thought "What could he have to do with anything connected to/.? I figured the guy was dead by now.
Damn I'm old. Then it turns out it wasn't even My Three Sons, it was Father Knows Best, so I'm old and senile.
How complex do things have to get before "God did it" becomes the best explanation?
That's not an explanation at all. It's just like saying "something" did it, but you've given it a name. The utility (or lack thereof) of that is summed up in the quote of Turner in the article:
"our main achievement in understanding dark energy is to give it a name."
He said: 'If you can accept 'god was just always there' " You said: "most believers will tell you God always existed." Then you said: "Slight distinction."
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Algebra? You couldn't just divide by two or something?
Actually, no it's not. Even if he opened a door randomly, those times in which he revealed the goat will still give you the 2/3 result. By switching, the only time you don't get the car is when you chose it initially, and that is obviously a 1/3 event.
Note: If he chooses a door randomly, and you can't switch to the door he opened, then overall you're 50/50, but in the case where he showed you a goat you're 2/3.
Since the three player game offers a 75% win rate, that would obviously be the minimum, since the team, if unaware of a better strategy, could always pretend it's the three player game (players 4-n always pass and are ignored by the first three).
If your cooking sucks then it should be the vampire, not you.
Well thank Jefferson he did. Otherwise it would sound like the ferenghi constitution.
That's pantywaist, you pantywaist.
If it were uncut there'd be more than one Soprano in it.
I commend you for providing references for your information. Do you get your info on nuclear power plants from The Simpsons?
He pays US$2.56 for each error in his books. Do you have a reference for this exponetial thing?
Except for the elegant part.
And I suppose you erase from your resume any accomplishments you're no longer actively pursuing.
Damn I'm old. Then it turns out it wasn't even My Three Sons, it was Father Knows Best, so I'm old and senile.
That's not an explanation at all. It's just like saying "something" did it, but you've given it a name. The utility (or lack thereof) of that is summed up in the quote of Turner in the article:
You said: "most believers will tell you God always existed."
Then you said: "Slight distinction."
What distinction would that be?