Suppose you're on a game show, and you're given the choice of three doors: Behind one door is a car; behind the others, goats. You pick a door, say No. 1, and the host, who knows what's behind the doors, opens another door, say No. 3, which has a goat. He then says to you, "Do you want to pick door No. 2?" Is it to your advantage to switch your choice?
Do any of you have any noteworthy experiences where knowledge of math helped you in an unusual way?
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Monty_Hall_problem
(Score: 2) by art guerrilla on Friday July 29 2016, @01:12PM
not buying it: if you euros are saying it is 'maths', when we 'murikans know it as mathematics, and THEN are saying you are 'mathematicians', not gonna allow it...
if you are saying 'maths', should be 'mathers'...
(Score: 2) by sjames on Friday July 29 2016, @06:54PM
Unless they are born in Germany, in which case they are called The Beaver.