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This FBG Otis made up a poem I couldnt verify cuz I hardly know 'em So I asked Woz if he believed every single thread He replied "Does Scupper have a big head?" Needed an opinion from the other side As the Otis fan base has a big divide Went and sought out that Mr. Pickles Only story he...

There was an old program for mac's(mid 80's) called the Toy shop. loved it. you would print out diagrams for building things like catapaults and cars and build them.

i have grown up a yankees fan. Never lived there. Never been there. Every report I could in elementary school, middle school, high school etc was done on the yankees or about a yankee. Everybody complains these days about the yankees payroll. Well what does it get them? A whole lot of...

if he had enough at bats he would be leading the league in batting. Kid can play. Local radio guys here were begging for him to be brought up all of april and early may.

there are two jugs. one 5 gallon and one 3 gallon. How do you get exactly four gallons of water in the 5 gallon jug? It is easy, but there is more than one way to solve it. For many people doing it a different way is hard to arrive at because they get the first one so easily. give it a whirl...

nope.the first and third sets you mentioned are in the same group. Both are members of B>A.

i think you understand now what I was trying to say.Lets say Al's numbers are A and B. Lets say Bobs number is C. C equates to saying higher or lower. It actually has no mathmatical value.We can all agree that Bob has a 50/50 shot at A or B right?So if Bob picks A his odds are 50/50 that his...

you have dialed yourself in to a false truth. You divide it into three subsets when there are ONLY two. If you pick a number that happens to be 7.5 for N+.5 and then you pick als right hand there are only two sets of numbers for what is in his left hand. There is either higher or lower than his...

ok one more time here before I go to bed.The 100% area you speak of is false. It is a made up figure. In fact the more I read this scenario it is fairly ridiculous as you predict that Bob could gain a HUGE edge. You predict that he should win almost 67% of the time if Al was truly randomly...

it is a very fun discussion, but do you see now why looking backwards at it is very misleading?

taking the opposite scenario if N+.5 is 1.5 and the first number is 10,000,000,0000 once again there are way more ways to lose here than win. ten trillion is a big number, but it is not infinity edited to add I mean if both numbers are above n+.5

your statement before states that he will win 50% of the time that both numbers are below N+.5this is in fact untrue.if n+.5 is 1.5 and the first number picked is -10000 you would say "higher". Well if both numbers are under n+.5 you are going to lose this guess way more than you win it.there...

that would make him right.not that would make him right if both numbers are below N+.5and my math was horrible, lol 1010 not 989.5

he will also be wrong more than 50% of the time the other direction also.

according to this math I could say that the times when both numbers are below the n+.5 he will be wrong more than 50% of the time. for example if bob picks 10.5 and the next number picked is -1000 bob will say higher. well there are only 989.5 numbers that could come up that will make him right...