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Originally posted by rsl12
or to make it more clear...
You pick up cup A and don't look inside. Now you know that you have the cup that contains either $2X or $X. Should you switch? The answer is clearly that it doesn't matter, because the other cup either contains $X or $2X! And even if you were to look inside cup A and see it contained $1, this should not change the logic one bit.
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Think about what you're saying here, very carefully. You pick cup
A and you
think you haven't looked inside but you really have! I mean, you obviously haven't but you might as well have when you continued with your line of logic. Why? Because
you've already assigned the cup a value and that value is X! (exclamation, not factorial)
Now, you totally misunderstood what I was trying to say. I would have tried to clarify it to you but I'm having a hard time trying to figure out why you didn't understand me in the first place. In particular, whenever I read your response, I can't figure out what it is you were thinking when you said it. It barely even looked like a response to my post. Perhaps it would help if you were to tell me what you think I was trying to say?