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- • Elevation of Privilege: The Card Game
- • The tenth of october 2010: 42-day
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- • The pratical use of a Sequence Diagram
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- • Are woman better at social engineering? Revisited.
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- • How to verify the security of your application: the OWASP standard
- • Friday - link-day #16 - distributed, programming, SSID in hiding, movies and scores
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- • Friday - link-day #13 - lockpicking, beep, Sartre, peanuts, photography and biometrics
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- • Bacterial based storage: store your data on E-coli
- • Diaspora open to invitees
- • Friday - link-day #21 - Linux and domination, security verification, steampunk girls, autumn and liars
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problem| Coding fun: statistical problem |
| Written by Division by Zero |
| Monday, 29 March 2010 09:16 |
|
A colleague of mine posed an interesting problem: You are in a game show. There are three doors you must choose from. Behind those doors there is one car and two goats (you obviously want the car). If you choose the door with the car, it's yours. If you choose a door with a goat, you loose. At first you choose from the three doors. After that the game show host will open one of the two other doors which will contain a goat. Now you have to make a final decision: you have two doors left. Will you stick to your choice or will you choose the other door? We argued about if for a day or two. We weren't sure about the statistical reasoning behind it: we decided to make a little console application for it. Related Articles |
Beware of bugs in the above code; I have only proved it correct, not tried it. - Donald E. Knuth
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When you start, you have a 2 out of 3 chance that the price is not behind your door but behind one of the other ones.
After the game show host has shown you the door that does not have the car, that entire probability is transferred to the remaining door.
So you now have 1 out of 3 chance at your door and a 2 out of 3 chance at the remaining door. It is therefor beneficial that change doors.
I'm still no sure, but I think your solution is right.
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