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Originally Posted by Grommit
This problem might cause heated debate, but it's hard to argue against mathematical fact. In fact, to prove disbelievers wrong, I wrote a program to do exactly this:
Three doors, randomly picked one to be correct.
Randomly pick a door.
Randomly choose a door that is incorrect and not picked to be opened.
Switch to the other door and see if it is correct.
The program won 66.7% of the time, after enough trials.
But I have better problems to solve  :
http://www.chiefdelphi.com/forums/sh...ad.php?t=27647
Have fun!
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That's funny I did the same thing (and got the same results of course.) Score one cookie for Grommit.
Here's a new one:
Is it possible to place four lamp-posts of different colors on the inside of a circle so that a person walking all the way around the outside of the circle would see all 24 (4!) combinations of colored posts from left to right at some point along the circle? Obviously, a proof is required either way.
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