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rob05c  ·  3197 days ago  ·  link  ·    ·  parent  ·  post: Game Show Problem

    (2) never opens that door. The original language didn't make the second assumption absolutely clear.

Yeah, her article glosses over that. I also didn't mean to be condescending to hobbyists. She doesn't say how many of her programmer writers were professionals versus amateurs. Nothing wrong with doing it wrong if you're learning to code. That's how you learn.

    (2) never opens that door.

I should mention, I learned about it in Discrete Math in the context of how foreknowledge affects results. So I knew what made the difference going in; it was just a matter of grasping why.