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From: BHBOTHWE@HELIX.watstar.uwaterloo.ca (Hugh Bothwell)
Subject: Re: 3-prisoners problem
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Date: Mon, 17 Oct 1994 22:14:15 GMT

>  to me: it's the Queen of Hearts. What's the probability, P(Y), that
>  I now have a Queen?

>    At this point, the chance that I have a Queen in my hand is
>    P(Y)=P(Queen\Not-queen-of-hearts) = 3/52

Uh... would it not be 3/51 ??  (If you KNOW it's not QoH, there are 51 cards 
that it could be, not 52).
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