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There was a British Game show called "Deal or No Deal", which is interesting here. The essential point is that there are 22 boxes, each...

1988, Hold your fire, tour.

Geddy Lee and Alex Lifeson apparently decided reform Rush for a new road tour in 2026-2027...

Have you done the math? Math is your friend in this. The conditional probabilities are completely different in the two situations. See...

It is important because it changes the conditional probabilities. As a matter of notation, let’s call the door that the contestant...

On that, with the departure of Fresh (he may come back) and the loss of the irreplaceable V50 and Paul, can we long standing members...

Or British football manager. Scottish.

The German translation is by far more colorful: Licking (s.o.) saliva or creeping (in s.o.) a** Of course, we use only one noun for the...

Archimedes had an empty field to cultivate. Galois had one idea for a very narrow problem. He would have been forgotten if it weren't...

I'm not sure I understood you correctly. The article is a historical perspective of the, in my mind, biggest turning points in physics...

How would that change the decision Dale? If Monty opened randomly and produced a goat or could see beforehand and chose a goat. I would...

So much to catch up on listening to past posts from where I left off here in PF. Look forward to more leisure time to do so. Here's a...

This is the point that is often missed. Suppose Monte Hall just blindly opened one of the remaining two doors and it happened to have a...

That argument fits the Monty Hall game, as generally understood. But, there are alternative ways to play where that argument fails...