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Dear Brian Hayes,
thank you for this helpful review as well as for your highly interesting regular column Comp Sci.
A lot has been written about the Monty Hall affair, however I haven't yet heard ...
posted by Helmut Gluender
July 2, 2008 @ 1:30 PM
Brian Hayes makes use of the "Lets Make a Deal" puzzle to make the point that computer simulation is a good way to sort out controversies such as the one Marilyn vos Savant created by asserting there ...
posted by Robert Sampsell
July 15, 2008 @ 3:01 PM
June 6, 2008
To: Brian Hayes
c/o: American Scientist
I read with a great deal of interest your column in the American Scientist, July-August 2008, entitled Programs ...
posted by Ethan Aronoff
July 15, 2008 @ 3:41 PM
In response to Brian Hayes’ postscript “Monty Hall Redux” (Sept-Oct 2008):
I had the wrong Monty Hall answer at first until I read about the computer simulation and decided to rethink the problem, ...
posted by Barbara Blossom
August 9, 2008 @ 3:42 PM
Well, for the Monty Hall problem the argument that convinced me right away was this: Suppose there were 1000 doors and one prize. You chose one door, and Monty opens 998 other doors. In this situation...
posted by Stephan Mertens
August 31, 2008 @ 10:50 AM