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It's also amusing to see a mathematician be more convinced by the computer simulation than the proof.


Reminds me of the Knuth quote: "Beware of bugs in the above code; I have only proved it correct, not tried it."


Well, it's also amusing to me that people want to jump to simulations that generate a large number of examples. In the original 3-door version of it, it's reasonable to exhaustively list all the possible sequences and just tally up the outcomes under each strategy. The simulation is just sampling from this not-that-long list.




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