Open Thread March 31 - April 7 2014

beoShaffer

If it's worth saying, but not worth its own post (even in Discussion), then it goes here.

In the winning strategy, do fewer than half the prisoners guess wrong? Do more prisoners guess correctly than incorrectly? I'm trying to get a handle on whether it is worth my while to try to penetrate the jargon in the "correct solutions."

What do you mean by half the prisoners? Let's start there.

-1mwengler12y

Is the mathematician's world really so insular,that someone from outside asking some questions about how a problem relates to concepts he understands gets downvoted? Or are you pretending that unless you skate with ease over three different kinds of infinities, their differences and similarities, and the paradoxical results of probability problems with infinity in the numerator and denominator, that you are just a time wasting intruder on an otherwise valuable conversation? Or did my questions, which I'd love to know the answer to, come across as a veiled negative comment?

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Open Thread March 31 - April 7 2014

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If it's worth saying, but not worth its own post (even in Discussion), then it goes here.

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Open Thread March 31 - April 7 2014

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If it's worth saying, but not worth its own post (even in Discussion), then it goes here.

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