The Second Scientific American Book of Mathematical Puzzles and Diversions

Gardner, M. (1987). The Second Scientific American Book of Mathematical Puzzles and Diversions. Simon & Schuster.

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1987

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• Boy or girl paradox
  • Older-child, at-least-one, random-child and volunteered-information protocols create different sample spaces; the paradox disappears when the observation mechanism is explicit.

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