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twofingers

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Posted: 02:22am 15 Sep 2015
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It became famous as a question from a reader's letter quoted in Marilyn vos Savant's "Ask Marilyn" column in Parade magazine in 1990 (vos Savant 1990a) (Wikipedia)

'***************************************************
'**************************************************
'* MMBasic 4.5 for Maximite/Duinomite
'* and MicroMites
'* twofingers @ TBS 09-2015
'* No warranty, provided at your own risk.
'*
'* Monty Hall problem (interactive)
'*
'* a code example/simulation
'* ---------------------------------------------------
'* Description:
'* Suppose you're on a game show,
'* and you're given the choice of three doors:
'* Behind one door is a car;
'* behind the others, goats.
'* You pick a door, say No. 1,
'* and the host, who knows what's behind
'* the doors, opens another door, say No. 3,
'* which has a goat. He then says to you,
'* "Do you want to pick door No. 2?"
'* Is it to your advantage to switch your choice?
'*
'* https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Monty_Hall_problem
'**************************************************
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In german: Das Ziegenproblem.
Download: (2 files: interactive/automatic)
2015-09-15_121419_Monty_Hall_Problem.zip

Michael

‚My name is Ozymandias, king of kings
Look on my works, ye Mighty, and despair!‘
Nothing beside remains. Round the decay
Of that colossal wreck, boundless and bare
The lone and ...
 
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