Bertrand's box paradox
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Bertrand's box paradox
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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 A coin withdrawn at random from the three boxes happens to be a gold coin. If you now examine the *other* coin in that box, what is the probability it will also be a gold coin? A verid
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Mathematical paradox
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2007-01-10T04:41:55Z
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2024-09-13T17:44:45Z
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