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Thanks a lot for your help, ssd! I really really appreciate it :) However, in the meantime I changed my approach a bit (was trying to solve Feynman's Restaurant Problem) and I managed to get to a simpler sum, which I was able to calculate, to my complete surprise. I guess it just was way...

Oh, I see what you mean. Unfortunately that doesn't help, as it's precisely the way I got up to this point :) I'm not familiar with the "n choose k" terminology, that's why I was confused. Thanks anyway, I'll keep trying.

Thanks for the input, jwatts, but I'm afraid I didn't get much, I did warn you my high school days are way behind me.. What do you mean by "choose k"? As for the gamma function, I kinda think I'm going to get even farther from the answer, considering my current ability.

I may be talking out of my ars, but I'll try an explanation that doesn't require extensive reading, just common sense. As a hint, it's not that "the odds change", magically surging from 33% to 50%, but the problem itself changes during the process, because there's more info than we had in the...

It's a classic problem (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Monty_Hall_problem), the easiest answer is that when you choose a door there's a 1/3 chance you get the woman, so it's more likely (twice as likely) that the woman is behind one of the other two doors. Of course, at first you can't know which...

Hi all, Can anyone gimme any clues to solve the sum below (or solve it outright :D)? \sum_{i=k}^{n} \frac{i!}{(i-k)!} I'm trying to solve one of Feyman's logic problems (bored geek alert) and I'm stuck at this point. And since my high school days are so far behind... Thanks in...