Three Prisoners problem
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The Three Prisoners problem appeared in Martin Gardner's "Mathematical Games" column in Scientific American in 1959. It is mathematically equivalent to the Monty Hall problem with car and goat replaced with freedom and execution respectively, and also equivalent to, and presumably based on, Bertrand's box paradox.
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Related problems and applications
- Bertrand's box paradox (also known as the three-cards problem)
- Boy or Girl paradox
- Monty Hall problem
- Principle of restricted choice, an application in the card game bridge
- Prisoner's dilemma, a game theory problem
- Sleeping Beauty problem
- Two envelopes problem
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