19 May
2017
19 May
'17
2:59 p.m.
Wait a second! I was talking about the Mosteller problem, not the one posed by Cris Moore. (Or am I misunderstanding?) —Dan
On May 19, 2017, at 1:51 PM, Allan Wechsler <acwacw@gmail.com> wrote:
Dan, when you say, "Many people can solve it in the way the poser intended," I feel a little sad because I'm not one of them. Is there *anything* you can say about this obvious-to-some interpretation that will shed some light on it for me? At the moment, I haven't a clue. I have a vague model of people trying places sequentially, where there are N places, and so each trial gives a probability of N^(-2) of success. I am guessing that there is some intended trick that allows one to do better than that.