SPUG: Stick Riddle
Jeremy Calvert
jeremycalvert2000 at yahoo.com
Fri Jan 3 00:23:19 CST 2003
> > > ... if A + B = C ...
> > ... the probability of this happening is 0 ...
> Not so. If the first break results in two sticks of
> equal length ...
Is so so:). The probability of your counter-example
happening is also 0. Otherwise, what is the
probability that the first break results in two sticks
of equal length?
Such is the counter-intuitive world of infintesimals:)
J
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