{"id":26158,"date":"2021-05-19T13:09:00","date_gmt":"2021-05-19T13:09:00","guid":{"rendered":"\/p\/a-hotel-with-an-infinite-number-of-rooms...-eventually-fills-up#id29738"},"modified":"2021-05-19T13:09:00","modified_gmt":"2021-05-19T13:09:00","slug":"even-highly-trained-mathematicians-are-initially-confused-by-the-probabilities","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/associatednews.us\/content\/even-highly-trained-mathematicians-are-initially-confused-by-the-probabilities\/","title":{"rendered":"Even highly-trained mathematicians are initially confused by the probabilities."},"content":{"rendered":"<p>    <iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"356\" height=\"200\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/OxGsU8oIWjY?feature=oembed&#038;wmode=transparent\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>A hotel with an infinite number of rooms&#8230; eventually fills up (when an &#8220;infinite party bus&#8221; shows up). Via <a href=\"https:\/\/kottke.org\/21\/05\/an-infinite-hotel-runs-out-of-rooms\">kottke<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>If this sort of puzzling goes well with your coffee break, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.wired.com\/2014\/11\/monty-hall-erdos-limited-minds\/\">the Monty Hall problem<\/a> is fun to think about.<\/p>\n<p><em>This problem is one of those situations&mdash;albeit rare&mdash;where someone can be shown an entire chain of logic, surveying the whole problem and its solution, and yet still have it bump up against their intuition. <\/em><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/themorningnews.org\/p\/a-hotel-with-an-infinite-number-of-rooms...-eventually-fills-up\">View Post &rarr;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>    A hotel with an infinite number of rooms&#8230; eventually fills up (when an &#8220;infinite party bus&#8221; shows up). Via kottke.<\/p>\n<p>If this sort of puzzling goes well with your coffee break, the Monty Hall problem is fun to think about.<\/p>\n<p>T&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-26158","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/associatednews.us\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26158","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/associatednews.us\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/associatednews.us\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/associatednews.us\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/associatednews.us\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=26158"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/associatednews.us\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26158\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":26159,"href":"https:\/\/associatednews.us\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26158\/revisions\/26159"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/associatednews.us\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=26158"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/associatednews.us\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=26158"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/associatednews.us\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=26158"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}