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  • Mathematical Conundrum or Not? Number Six

    Anyone want to see me make a random selection from a continuous normal distribution under the same conditions?

    Cash limit is 15 bucks only one dollar bills.

    x <- rnorm(1, mean = 2.5, sd = 1)
x <- abs(as.numeric(format(round(x, 0))))
x

#Pulls a number at random then rounds it. 
#If I get 0 or greater than 5 then I just re-roll.
#I could code the re-roll in but I am being lazy. 


[1] 2

    2 bucks.

    So I put 2 in A and 4 in B. Once again they are the same event pulled from the same sample space at the same time.

    I don't know why people keep making all these assumptions about the unknown domain, distribution, and selection methods when there are an uncountable number of ways to accomplish this task.
    Jeremiah,  

  • Mathematical Conundrum or Not? Number Six

    Let's do this, an example with limits and a defined scale

    Say I have a 15 bucks, that is my cash limit and it is all in one dollar bills.

    There now we know what the game master has.

    I decide to use my computer to randomly select a value,

    sample(1:5, 1)

#Pulls one random sample from 1 to 5

[1] 3

    It selects 3.

    I stuff 3 bucks in one envelop and 6 bucks in the other other. Both envelopes are filled from the same chance mechanism and sample sample space; it is one event.

    I don't think I need to to follow through on the rest. No one ever said the domain of has to be the same as my cash limit. That was an assumption people made.
    Jeremiah,  
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