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I don't think you should count on this. It's often shocking how careless people/companies are on things that they are experts at.

If you've lost your cat, don't blame Quantum Mechanics.

When you talk about a "infinite", are you talking about a distance/metric, or are you talking about the number of elements in the set A...

That machine has VGA and HDMI ports, whereby to connect to an external monitor ##-## if the port isn't damaged, it should become active...

I understand that the Uncertainty Principle is considered as embedded in Nature and is not to be considered as a simple limit on the...

Yes. By a landslide. And not just in an intuitive sense; most seemed to know it probabilistically.

Hay!!! I take that personally. ..... well, ok. :cool: If that was the FB consensus, I am surprised and impressed.

I just realized this didn't land the way I thought it would. (especially since it's too low-rez to actually read the comments) FBusers...

The probability of a Monty Hall thread being only 2 posts long is substantially less than 1/3.

"Hedging your bets" is a legitimate technique to reduce the severity/variance/magnitude of alternative outcomes.

It fits fine, but is not as compelling. For the player that has the car behind their door, Monty cannot spoil the game and that player...

Suppose Monte makes his decision blindly and the game is declared invalid and restarted if he opens the prize door. Then, for valid...

But there might be a detail missing here. If Monte opens a door blindly, and it happens to be a goat by luck, then 50% is, indeed...

In a nutshell. There are three boxes, 0, 1, and 2. The player picks a random box. 0, 1, or 2. If you simulate the game, then the player...