Quote Originally Posted by Niya View Post
. . . so I wrote a small WPF application to actually test whether always choosing a different door after a reveal of false doors really does improve the odds, which of course they absolutely did.
What you've done is called Monte Carlo simulation and is a viable algorithm from CS -- I've used this in programming competition in my high-school years :-))

I've recently re-watched 21 movie and solving the Monty Hall Problem was how the main character was picked up by his math teacher for the crew to hit the Vegas casinos.

My IQ is obvious not as high as Savant's (though not too bad either) so I couldn't figure out the odds without pen and a paper on first occasion with the problem. Some Nobel Prize winners failed too so I don't feel too bad about it at all. . . :-))

cheers,
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