Wed 13 Nov, 2013 06:20 pm - Well, when you put it that way, markr, of course it does :)
I don' t know how I missed that. I guess I was trying to concentrate on Feller's thought process. The way he chooses to give... (view)
Mon 4 Nov, 2013 06:51 pm - Excellent, markr, I explicitly worked out the case for n=4 and you're absolutely right. I guess the kind of intuition where you know this beforehand just comes with practice, huh? (view)
Mon 4 Nov, 2013 06:48 pm - Thanks, markr. By the way, it probably is a typo, but Feller's answer isn't correct. P( n–1, r–1 )/P( n, r ) is NOT = to 1/n (the equality doesn't hold). (view)
Sat 2 Nov, 2013 04:40 pm - Hi, group,
Semi-retiree here with newfound interest in probability, slowly working my way through the problems in Wm Feller's excellent book. Problem 11 in section II.10 is: A man is given... (view)
Sat 2 Nov, 2013 04:38 pm - This is for the webmaster (I actually clicked on a link provided for Postmaster Hamster Sr and this page came up). How do I upload PDFs/Excel files to support my math questions so that members of... (view)
Sat 2 Nov, 2013 04:34 pm - Hi, group,
Semi-retiree here with newfound interest in probability, slowly working my way through the problems in Wm Feller's excellent book. Problem 9 in section II.10 is: If n balls are... (view)
