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Originally posted by pkcRAISTLIN i understand your words, i just dont think youre right each door has 1/5 chance. take two doors away, each door has 1/3 chance. by eliminating the two other doors, the probability isnt "transferred" over to the fifth door, each change in the doors equates to a change in ALL the doors, not just the unopened unselected one. thus it starts 1/5, then becomes 1/4 then 1/3. since you have a free choice at the beginning, the probability for all doors remains the same.

a door being opened does not make a door disappear

just run a few simulations (the greater the number of doors in play [ala my cards analogy from before] the lesser simulations you'd have to run to see it's true), you'll eat your words, guaranteed

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Here's a novel idea, someone bust out a deck of cards and calculate the odds manually

I'd do it myself if I could find a deck.

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Originally posted by Psy-T a door being opened does not make a door disappear

hehe, oh yeah. i stand corrected

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.99999REPEATING = 1
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Originally posted by mezzir HERE'S AN ACTUAL MATH ONELOL .99999REPEATING = 1 PROVE IT USING TWO DIFFERENT METHODS go

did capslock day end in the middle of your post?

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Originally posted by Psy-T did capslock day end in the middle of your post?

CAPS LOCK DOESN'T MEAN SHIFT DOESN'T WORK!

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Uh..

2/3 = .66666666666666666666666666666666...
1/3 = .33333333333333333333333333333333...

1/3 + 2/3 = 1
.333... + .666... = .999...

So, 1 = .999


It's impossible to cross a room.

To reach the other side of a room, you must first go halfway. To go halfway, you have to go half of the way from the start to the halfway. To go to the halfway of the halfway, you must go halfway, ad infinitum.

Or.. To go 1/2, you must go 1/4, before you do that, you must go 1/8.. you get my point.

So you can never actually get to the end of the room. You never actually go anywhere, because you have to go half of the way before you do.

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Originally posted by Akridrot It's impossible to cross a room. To reach the other side of a room, you must first go halfway. To go halfway, you have to go half of the way from the start to the halfway. To go to the halfway of the halfway, you must go halfway, ad infinitum. Or.. To go 1/2, you must go 1/4, before you do that, you must go 1/8.. you get my point. So you can never actually get to the end of the room. You never actually go anywhere, because you have to go half of the way before you do.

oh come on.. Zeno? what are we, commoners?

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Originally posted by Psy-T oh come on.. Zeno? what are we, commoners?

Zeno's paradox is not really a paradox, is it?

Even if it's simple, I'd like to see more like it.

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Originally posted by Akridrot It's impossible to cross a room. To reach the other side of a room, you must first go halfway. To go halfway, you have to go half of the way from the start to the halfway. To go to the halfway of the halfway, you must go halfway, ad infinitum. Or.. To go 1/2, you must go 1/4, before you do that, you must go 1/8.. you get my point. So you can never actually get to the end of the room. You never actually go anywhere, because you have to go half of the way before you do.

this bullshit is called Sophism, and it's more than 2 thousand years old it was used by some ancient greek philosophers to make fool of others by disproving obvious things in a manner aforementioned

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sophism

on a math level, it can be easily disproven through series and limits as real world is not discrete, the continuity of it follows all that Calculus 1 crap.

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