The prisoners can't communicate with each other I guess?
No they can't.
Sounds good.I suspect first move is for prisoner x to open box x
In the n=4 case, the chance of success is 10/24.
The prisoners can't communicate with each other I guess?
Sounds good.I suspect first move is for prisoner x to open box x
Ah good call Mise, do the prisoners know the names and numberings of the other prisoners?
How the crap does that work?!
If the guard does know the numbering, can he arrange for there to be a cycle of length > N/2?
Yeah but how come it makes such a huge difference?! I mean, we're talking raising the probability from 10^-10 or whatever, to 10^-1.
He said 30 times better, not 10^9 times
30 times better than 1/2^100 is bugger all2^100 is an enormous number...