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dgreening last won the day on August 1 2017
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Pickett makes a good point about not knowing the original price that Bill paid, but based on the data as presented
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Sorry, something got lost in copying and pasting. The site does not like the formatting used in word, so I am attaching a picture of the solution ... apologies in advance.
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A friend and I were working on this. Mark came up with an elegant solution. Close-form (explicit function) solution: .
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This is very interesting, but I think there is a more concrete answer.
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Spin the bottle (no kissing involved)
dgreening replied to bonanova's question in New Logic/Math Puzzles
My first thought was like Capt Ed. BUT thinking about it some more. -
No dispute here.
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Aha! I just didn't follow the same process through to get the supper precision devices! Thanks
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Curious about your result. If you average over many trials are your expected winnings positive? As I mentioned, I only did a small number of runs [about 100]. BTW - I like your title "Retired Expert"! I think that if you do a large number of runs, you eventually get to about 50%. I was quoting bonanova solution/answer, not my proposed strategy. Your strategy is not applicable, you can't bet more money than you have, if your current money is 50$, your original money is 100$, so 2*100-50 = 150$, which you don't have. Now I explain, my proposed strategy. Hidden Content yes, if you [and the h
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An answer for part 1
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Perhaps some more description of the task would help. What is the context for this question??
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Now I am confused. I think I followed the strategy you described yesterday, when you postulated that it would deliver 100% chance of winning. But, now your simulation it gives you a 50% chance of winning. Did I miss something??
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I was working on the strategy that you describe: Bet half my money [rounded to an integer]; orbet the "ceiling" [twice my original money - Current money].Testing this in a spread sheet [with only about 100 trials] I am winning about 62% of the time.
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The hint about primary numbers did not help, but I noticed a pattern
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Thanks
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I would be interested in how you calculated your answer. I came up with something slightly different