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Yeah BlackAdder Send a noteboard - 25/05/2010 05:05:16 AM
What they did there made no sense. There's no difference between Boy-Girl and Girl-Boy, because the order of birth has nothing to do with the question. The 13/27 thing suffers from the same problem. They say that BTu-BTu can only be counted once, and can't be counted again when you switch them around ... but at the same time, they're counting things twice by switching them around all the way through (saying, for example, that BTu-BWe is a different probability from BWe-BTu). Essentially, they're saying that the order doesn't matter when both boys are born on a Tuesday, but the order matters in every other case. They're not even applying their own logic evenly throughout the problem, it seems.

Even if, for some reason, you really want to use the irrelevent Tuesday information in the Math, it should still come out to 7/14.

Like ... are we missing something? Or is that just a surprisingly faulty math article?
Just like BB and GG are actually reversible as well... B1B2/B2B1 and G1G2/G2G1. Their logic seems inconsistent.
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Recreational mathematics - 24/05/2010 09:17:27 PM 1251 Views
How is boy/girl different from girl/boy? - 25/05/2010 01:05:15 AM 1218 Views
I think it has to do with sequence - 25/05/2010 08:37:05 AM 975 Views
The problem doesn't state the sequence, so there's no reason to assume it. - 25/05/2010 08:56:09 AM 1063 Views
Yes there is - 25/05/2010 10:36:02 AM 955 Views
Then see my response. - 25/05/2010 12:20:04 PM 890 Views
Faulty "logic". 2/4 - 25/05/2010 02:12:54 AM 1149 Views
I was going to say. - 25/05/2010 02:48:38 AM 991 Views
Yeah - 25/05/2010 05:05:16 AM 965 Views
Re: Yeah - 25/05/2010 09:52:58 AM 1331 Views
I don't know Python, but I think I know what went wrong there. - 25/05/2010 11:33:18 AM 1009 Views
Re: I don't know Python, but I think I know what went wrong there. - 25/05/2010 01:53:01 PM 1289 Views
Ah, I see now; sorry. - 25/05/2010 02:27:05 PM 960 Views
It's also playing off your mental biases - 25/05/2010 04:49:40 PM 926 Views
If you stop now I'll still be verbal. - 26/05/2010 10:58:27 AM 953 Views
I think I see where I went wrong. - 25/05/2010 07:44:25 PM 903 Views

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