Date:         Sun, 23 Jan 2000 21:16:06 +0000
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From:         John Whittington <John.W@MEDISCIENCE.CO.UK>
Subject:      Re: an interesting game
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At 17:17 23/01/00 GMT, shiling@MATH.WAYNE.EDU wrote:

>I saw this game on a user group. It is interesting. Here it is.

This is the classic 'Monty Hall' problem - and has used up more time on
newgroups and discussion groups than I care to remember :-) - essentially
because there are *always* a few who refuse to accept the (admittedly
counter-intuitive) answer, no matter how much theory and simulations they
are shown.

For those intererested, there is at least one website devoted to the topic
- type 'Monty Hall' into a search engine!

Kind Regards


John

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