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- From: jerryd@hpgrla.gr.hp.com (Jerry Donovan)
- Date: Mon, 21 Dec 1992 18:47:16 GMT
- Subject: Re: Re: Monty Hall Puzzle RIP <NOT!>
- Message-ID: <2310021@hpgrla.gr.hp.com>
- Organization: Hewlett-Packard, Greeley, CO
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- Newsgroups: rec.puzzles
- References: <1992Dec18.183609.11451@cs.cornell.edu>
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- >I thought the original Monty Hall puzzle died long ago (barring
- >residual quibbling over what constitutes correct wording of the
- >question)...
-
- >-- David Karr (karr@cs.cornell.edu)
-
- Not one puzzle ever shown in this group will ever die forever, even if
- everyone at the time agrees on the solution.
-
- Proof of this last statement is left as an exercise for the reader.
-
- Maybe the solution to sending messages a billion years into the
- future is to post it here. :-(
-
- Jerry Donovan
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