User talk:79123

Hi - I responded on my talk page. We can talk here if you'd rather. -- Rick Block (talk) 00:54, July 26, 2005 (UTC)

An explanation of my erranous point of view. I am sure minds much wiser then mind have put as 2/3 so it must be but I'll try again... Now, suppose I give you 3 cards like the ones you gave me...


 * Card One Card Two Card Three:

Now, you know behind one of them is the ace of spades and two others are the ace of hearts. Now you choose one, there is a 1/3 chance you have the car and 2/3 you got the goat. The host know opens one of the goats.


 * Goat:Card You Choose:Unknown:

So, if the two unknown cards consist of one goat and one car, there is a fifty-fifty percent chance you have choosen the car...Follow? So switching has an equal chance of helping or hindering. Right?

This IS RANDOM JUNK: Did you know that 34.557518999/11 comes out to 3.14159263627 is closer to pi then 22/7 which is 3,14285714286. (there is some 10.(...) that divides to 3.1415926 but I was just playing with my calculater...) Wasn't that random! By the way...PLAY BZFLAG...


 * The issue is what happens when the host opens the door. You agree before the host opens the door there's a 1/3 chance of having picked the car.  How about if we stop the game right there and you never get the chance to switch?  In this case, there's a 1/3 chance of winning, right?  Now let's change it so the host opens a door (like in the real game), but you never get the chance to switch.  Still 1/3, right?  But now there's only 2 unknown doors, and the one you have only wins 1/3 of the time.  Since the car is somewhere, if it's behind the door you choose 1/3 of the time is has to be behind the other door 2/3 of time.   Back to what happens when the host opens the door.  The answer is he's telling you if the car is behind either of the doors you didn't choose (2/3 chance) it's behind THIS one (the one he doesn't open).  He could just point at one of the doors without opening the other one (same effect).  Back to cards.  You deal me one card and keep two.  I have 1/3 chance of having the ace of spades.  You look at your cards (don't discard one) and just say, if I have the ace it's this one (and you're telling the truth).  I still have a 1/3 chance.  There's a 2/3 chance you have it.  If you tell me which card it is, that single card has a 2/3 chance of being it. -- Rick Block (talk) 02:14, July 26, 2005 (UTC)

Thers one problem with that though... In your cards and in the game, the host does not tell you that you have the right card..he skips over two cards. Switching will not help you...if he told you switching would but what card you have is unknown.

By the way..Rick, um are you supposed to put a full synopisis of book in an article about it and how do you add the plot or spoiler details template?


 * You've picked a door: 1/3 chance it has the car. If you stay with your door you win the car 1/3 of the time.  There's a 2/3 chance the car is behind one of the doors you didn't pick.  The host tells you (by opening one of the other doors) which of them the car is behind if it is behind either of them.  2/3 of the time the car is behind one of them.  Opening one tells you it is behind the other one.  I have no idea how old you are or how much math you've had.  Do you know what conditional probability is?


 * The_Wonderful_Wizard_of_Oz was a featured article. You can see how it was done there.  -- Rick Block (talk) 02:59, July 26, 2005 (UTC)

Finally.. I get it. Thanks for the Wizard of Oz.


 * Anytime. -- Rick Block (talk) 00:46, July 27, 2005 (UTC)

New pages
A few more questions, how do I create new pages and how am I supposed to add links.
 * You might want to try the Tutorial. For starting a page, please see Help:Starting a new page.  To link to an internal page surrond the article name with double square brackets (like the links above).  To link to an external web site, surround the link with single square brackets.  There's a whole page on links in the tutorial, see Tutorial (Wikipedia links). -- Rick Block (talk) 02:49, July 27, 2005 (UTC)

Artemis Fowl series
Thank you for all your help. Would you mind looking at the little bit of the Artemis Fowl series I edited. Also, can you tell, if I have an article with the smae name as another, how do I put it on the disambiguation page and how do I make a link to that?
 * I haven't read these books, so I can't really comment on the substance of your changes but from what I see they look fine (although you might want to be a little more careful with your spelling - one way to run a spell checker is to copy the text from the edit window and paste it into a word processor like Microsoft Word). Are you thinking about linking from Troll (disambiguation) to the Trolls (Artemis Fowl) article you created?  If so it seems like you should just add another list item to the top bullet list, following the examples that are already there.  And for a link back you can either just add an explicit link in the text, or add what's called a "disambiguation link" at the top of the article (like at Troll).  The one at Troll is there since if you type "troll" in the search box and hit "go" it's the article you get to.  If you follow the links from Troll (disambiguation) you'll notice Troll is the only one with a link back to the disambiguation page.  There's no hard and fast rule about this, but some folks think this is the "correct" style, i.e. if "page (disambiguation)" exists "page" should link to it but no other articles because if you end up at "page (something else}" you probably meant to be there.  Keep up the good work!  At some point I'll stop watching your talk page (this page), so if I don't respond to a question you ask here either repeat it on my talk page or just leave me a note pointing me over here.  Oh, and by the way, other stuff you might want to look at (from the official, highly impersonal standard "welcome" message) includes:


 * How to edit a page
 * Editing tutorial (you've seen this, right?)
 * Picture tutorial
 * How to write a great article
 * Naming conventions
 * Manual of Style
 * Help:Contents (this is the "help" link on every page)

In addition, you can sign your name in talk pages and voting by typing three tildes. Four tildes ( ~ ) signs your name and also displays the date which you signed your name. Thanks for signing up! -- Rick Block (talk) 14:21, July 28, 2005 (UTC)

Just one problem. In the past week, when ever I have tried to edit, it has given me an error message. If it starts to work, are there any artiles that you think wikipedia does not have. Or would you advise me to simply look up current stubs. Is there a page on stubs for each subject?