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kirisutogomen ([personal profile] kirisutogomen) wrote2010-03-27 04:02 pm
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More head-busting probability

[livejournal.com profile] rifmeister posts a wonderful little problem here, and it reminded me of an entirely different wacko problem posed on the xkcd balrog bolgia blog "blag". I don't particularly recommend slogging through all the comments, as a reasonable number of them are useless or worse, but the link to the Wikipedia article on the "two envelopes problem" is certainly worth a look.

[identity profile] treptoplax.livejournal.com 2010-03-28 04:01 am (UTC)(link)
(Ok, I actually mean non-zero probability for the interval between any two distinct positive real numebrs, but you get the point...)