.@propensive shared an interesting problem yesterday, and I thought it might be a fun exercise to code up a simulation of it in scala. Check it out:https://github.com/zakpatterson/nprisonerproblem …
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Fantastic! Did you calculate the (statistical) chance of success using the best strategy?
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It's in the readme! Here it is for 1 million trials: bestStrategy: Lived 312304 times (31.230%)
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Oh, I missed that bit! Seems about right. :)
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