Bertrand's box paradox
id:
bertrand-s-box-paradox-178-8478060
title:
Bertrand's box paradox
text:
Bertrand's box paradox is a veridical paradox in elementary probability theory. It was first posed by Joseph Bertrand in his 1889 work Calcul des Probabilités. There are three boxes:
- a box containing two gold coins,
- a box containing two silver coins,
- a box containing one gold coin and one silver coin. A coin withdrawn at random from the three boxes happens to be a gold coin, then what is the probability that the next coin drawn from the same box is also a gold coin? A veridical para
brand slug:
wiki
category slug:
encyclopedia
description:
Mathematical paradox
original url:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bertrand%27s_box_paradox
date created:
2007-01-10T04:41:55Z
date modified:
2024-09-04T16:19:54Z
main entity:
{"identifier":"Q1118084","url":"https://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q1118084"}
image:
fields total:
13
integrity:
15