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andy brummer wrote: There is always brute force. Calculate all posibilities and just count apples and oranges. (or boxes in this case.) You can make it sound more impressive calling it "the Monte Carlo statistical modelling" (I'm serious) :) Perl combines all the worst aspects of C and Lisp: a billion different sublanguages in one monolithic executable. It combines the power of C with the readability of PostScript. -- Jamie Zawinski
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I just saw this thread now and I was about to answer with that. :-) Regards, Brian Dela :-) http://www.briandela.com IE 6 required.
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andy brummer wrote: There is always brute force. Calculate all posibilities and just count apples and oranges. (or boxes in this case.) You can make it sound more impressive calling it "the Monte Carlo statistical modelling" (I'm serious) :) Perl combines all the worst aspects of C and Lisp: a billion different sublanguages in one monolithic executable. It combines the power of C with the readability of PostScript. -- Jamie Zawinski
That's the lazy version. Monte Carlo only calculates some of the results and then assumes all the rest are the same. It's great using statistics to calculate statistical results. There's a 20% chance that there is a 30% chance that it was the second box. My goal is to look at code like a chessmaster looks at a chessboard to see positions and possibilites beyond lines and characters.
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Hi Could you guys check if my homework is correct: Q A box (A) contains 8 apples and 4 oranges Another box (B) containes 10 apples and 2 oranges A fruit is picked from a random box, and found to be an apple. what is the chance of this apple comming from box A. Use Bayes theorem. scroll down for my answer A: 8/12 * 1/2 ---------------------- 8/12 * 1/2 + 10/12 * 1/2 = 0.444
0.5 It is either from box A or not.;P