Darryl's Background Story! :D

[Gottlob]

Growing up, the only three numbers of our street address were "137".

Of course.

"It's" ---> 173 with a 5, for MrV=55.5 at 137, if a comma/apostrophe is taken as a backward e = E ---> 3. Ha.

Hey garnabby...does this mean I win a prize?

If so, I pick door number three.

Thanks!

Ha. I won't give you a prize, but, I'll teach you how to hunt for prizes.

In her response, Savant states:

Suppose there are a million doors, and you pick door #1. Then the host, who knows what’s behind the doors and will always avoid the one with the prize, opens them all except door #777,777. You’d switch to that door pretty fast, wouldn’t you?

Many readers of Savant's column refused to believe switching is beneficial and rejected her explanation. After the problem appeared in Parade, approximately 10,000 readers, including nearly 1,000 with PhDs, wrote to the magazine, most of them calling Savant wrong. Even when given explanations, simulations, and formal mathematical proofs, many people still did not accept that switching is the best strategy. Paul Erdős, one of the most prolific mathematicians in history, remained unconvinced until he was shown a computer simulation demonstrating Savant's predicted result.

The problem is a paradox of the veridical type, because the solution is so counterintuitive it can seem absurd but is nevertheless demonstrably true.

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