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A comment on Parrondo's Paradox: How two ugly parents can make a beautiful baby. Parent comment

Re:Parrondo's Paradox: How two ugly parents can make a beaut... by Evbn on Thursday August 23, 2012 @04:10PM (#4424556)
That's what "paradox" is: when a simple model or explanation seems to show a contradiction, and a more sophisticated model is needed to understand the situation.
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Re:Parrondo's Paradox: How two ugly parents can make a beaut... by Dylan16807 on Thursday August 23, 2012 @10:11PM (#4425883)
But in this case the 'simple model' is less 'simple' and more 'misleading'. Something should be a paradox without trickery. Someone hiding invalid division to make 1=2 is not a paradox. "Set of sets that don't contain themselves" is a paradox.
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