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- From: kscott@brahms.udel.edu (Nicole Lassiter)
- Subject: Re: Can a part be greater than the whole?
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- References: <1992Nov20.151522.26315@hellgate.utah.edu>
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- Date: Fri, 20 Nov 1992 22:54:13 GMT
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- This reminds me of a anecdote from minimax. Suppose you have a new coin
- that you have flipped 1000 times and gotten heads 990 times. Now suppose
- you lock the coin and results in a drawer and go away for the night. A
- burglar (obviously eccentric) comes, opens the drawer, flips the coin 10000
- times and comes up with heads 4510 times, tails 5490 times, then locks up
- the drawer and the coin so you never knew he was there. Did he steal
- information from you?
-