Really annoyed me that the kiddos voted to not switch, and they got the car. Getting children to understand that 1/3 is smaller than 1/2 is hard enough. I’m going to program my own evil version that only wins on switch the first time next time I do this.

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[–] 5 points 8 months ago (1 child)

It’s called Monte Carlo method, I presume.

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  • [–] [S] 4 points 8 months ago

    I talked a little about Monte Carlo methods too - told them about a FORTRAN (!) program I had to write in college. Finding pi by throwing darts at a dart board and looking at the ratio of hits to misses to determine area…

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