[extropy-chat] red and white zorfs again

[Henrique Moraes Machado]

Agreed, but for different reasons:
Appart from mathematics, knowing my wife very well, I'd put only one red zorf in the first urn and all the other zorfs in the other. My wife would without any doubt bring me the lighter urn... :-)


----- Original Message ----- 
From: "David" <deimtee at optusnet.com.au>
To: "ExI chat list" <extropy-chat at lists.extropy.org>
Sent: Wednesday, January 12, 2005 8:26 AM
Subject: Re: [extropy-chat] red and white zorfs again


> Assuming all the zorfs must go in an urn :-)
> You put one red zorf in one urn and all the white zorfs and
> the rest of the red zorfs in the other.
> Probability you will get a red zorf is (.50 + (N-1)/(2N))
> Otherwise you put half the red zorfs in one urn, half in
> the other and defenestrate the white ones.