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Which means it is not a solution to the problem. Each player can anticipate the other’s strategy. If player 2 calculates player 1's...

Well, I have a result, but hard to be sure how accurate it is. R has probability of about 0.625 of winning. The strategy distributions...

Working on it, but I don’t see an analytic way and I can’t get an accurate numerical result before the program exceeds its execution time.

That does not define a stable solution. Exactly how long does L wait to decide R has failed to fire? If L waits for ##\Delta t## then...

We have to make an assumption about realism. Can each duellist observe the other pulling the trigger and respond rapidly enough to...

The original text does not say "once". You added that in your instruction. But what does cutting once mean? It suggests a single...

Whether Earth is moving toward or away from Jupiter is almost immaterial in itself. The orbital period of Io is about 42.5 hours. In...

Bingo. As should have been obvious, it would not have been possible to time an individual transit since that is defined as the period Io...

You're right - I was looking at the first line of the body of the post, the bit to the right of the"TL;DR". I just assumed the title...

I have a suspicion that some respondents are reading the thread title as "How can light be a wave and particle at the same time" instead...

That’s reading too much into the way the diagram is drawn. The distances 1-2 and 3-4 will be about the same, but not exactly. Suppose...

The text is clarified somewhat by the caption on the figure: "When the Earth moves away from Jupiter during a transit." I.e. it’s not...

Infinity is to do with things. How you can discuss things rigorously without developing a theory of sets eludes me.

We are: The normal force between two bodies is, by definition, normal to the plane of contact of the bodies (if that is well defined)...

"not moving at all" may be misleading. Its instantaneous velocity is zero, but it is accelerating upwards.