in reply to Holiday parcel puzzle

See also Monty_Hall_problem. I heard it at a lecture, but cannot remember when, where (Vienna?) and from whom.

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Re^2: Holiday parcel puzzle
by cavac (Prior) on Dec 22, 2011 at 18:01 UTC

    Ah, THAT is the technical term for it :-)

    I learned about the problem by reading Friedrich Schiel's BAfH stories (similar to Simon's BOFH stories, but in german language and in an University setting).

    BREW /very/strong/coffee HTTP/1.1
Host: goodmorning.example.com

418 I'm a teapot
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