Re:Puzzle: 100 Prisoners and a Light Bulb
by curi on Tuesday November 13, 2007 @08:07PM
(#79602)
i wrote code. 1000 trials.
naive mean: 10389.832
my strategy's mean: 9392.652
i think the improvement was a little less good than i guessed because i jumpstart getting the first dozen or so people counted, and they are a little easier to count than the last people.
i think the improvement was a little less good than i guessed because i jumpstart getting the first dozen or so people counted, and they are a little easier to count than the last people.