Also see my personal least favorite maths term, "almost all", which literally means "everything, except anything you can possibly see or measure directly". (Almost all real numbers are irrational. There are infinitely many rational numbers! But they're 0% of the total!)
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It should hopefully be obvious that the ONLY WAY you shouldn't switch is if you randomly happened to get the 1% chance of picking the right door initially There's a 99% chance you picked wrong, and that therefore when they eliminated the 98 the 99th unpicked door had the car
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I really appreciate that, and now it makes the Monty Hall problem seem less like an intellectual… thing, and more like a stupid parlor trick.
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