Friday, April 29, 2011

Penny-pitching


For a Friday workout, here's a post about an old Marilyn vos Savant problem (and NO, it has nothing to do with Monty Hall, but does pertain to game theory):

http://tinyurl.com/3np5oh9

A fuller treatment of the problem here, from Scientific American (pdf):

http://siam.org/pdf/news/331.pdf

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