/sci/ - Science & Math

[Deaner's Left Nut !S0ooHAHDTU No.5587006]

That really rustled my jimmies but this is for continued discussion of the problem in pic.

[Anonymous No.5587010]

You posted inane and irrelevant trolling garbage. That middle school puzzle was ambiguous enough that you could pretentiously tell anyone they are wrong by misinterpreting it.

[Deaner's Left Nut !S0ooHAHDTU No.5587012]

To skip all the bullshit, we were debating wether the answer is .5 for all three scenarios or .5, .75, or .875 respectively.

Feathers got ruffled last time, probs why I got banned. But it really is a very interesting question.

[Anonymous No.5587013]

>>5587006
1:
0.9998.../2

2: 0

3: 0

Is there some kind of insinuation im missing of there mixing?

[Deaner's Left Nut !S0ooHAHDTU No.5587014]

>>5587010

I learned this in a third year honours mathematical statistics class. It's quasi-philosophical but in no way "middle school". The professor left us hanging as to what his thoughts are. It's not a question of interpretation either.

[Deaner's Left Nut !S0ooHAHDTU No.5587020]

>>5587013

Intuitively one would answer .5, .75 and .875 respectively. I don't know where you got your numbers from, sorry.

However, if you look closely, you may see that the first question is identical to the second if you imagine that the "square generator" is just the "line generator" being squared. ie imagine that one line generator actually behaves normally but produces for identical line at once in the pattern of a square.

Getting it?

[Deaner's Left Nut !S0ooHAHDTU No.5587024]

>>5587020

So producing a line of length .5 (which has a probability of .5) would be making 4 lines in the pattern of a square, which would have area .25. So shouldn't the answer for question 2 also be .5?

[Anonymous No.5587027]

>>5587014
You don't define volume or how it's generated and you don't give a measure. That puzzle, if you can even call it that, is purely semantics.

[Anonymous No.5587028]

>>5587020
>Between 0 & 1
>not 1

>only 1 can be realistically squared
>impossible to be larger than

>samesame^

[Anonymous No.5587033]

OP should be banned again. Go back to /b/.