Probability

Philip on May 29th, 2011

Before continuing, the reader should acquaint himself with Philip’s explanation of the basic form of the Monty Hall problem, as shown in this YouTube video: Intro I just had a very interesting email exchange with a reader named Johan who had some excellent questions about Monty Python-esque probability puzzles. The questions he brought up were [...]

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Philip on October 4th, 2009

Today’s post is going to be a riddle; I figured it was about time for another one. You and I both have envelopes filled with money. My envelope contains either double or half the amount of money that’s in yours. If you want, I’m going to let you switch envelopes. Should you stay, switch, or [...]

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Philip on September 14th, 2009

For those of you who are interested in going even further with probability, check out my followup post: The Monty Hall Problem Revisited: Delving Deeper

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