Comic #4253: monty-hall-problems
Description
Here's the transcription of the comic:
Top Panel:
- Text: "Suppose you can pick door A, door B, or door C. One hides a goat. Two doors hide a prize."
- Character 1: "You pick one, then the host reveals that one of the other doors hides a goat."
- Character 1: "Should you switch?"
- Character 2: "Switching won't improve your odds from being 50-50."
Middle Panel:
- Character 3: "Wrong! If you switch, you get a two in three chance to find the prize."
- Character 1: "How?"
- Character 2: "Math goblins."
Next Panel:
- Character 2: "When a math problem has an obvious answer that is actually wrong, it's because tiny green goblins invaded the universe's fabric of logic and screwed around with it."
- Character 1: "Did you know that 0.999… exactly equals one?"
- Character 3: "Nuh uh."
- Character 2: "Math goblins."
Next Panel:
- Character 2: "I think you're just making up fantasies to paper over your lack of math education."
- Character 3: "No, dammit! Nobody believes me!"
Bottom Panel:
- Text: "Later…"
- Character 2: "If you have 24 people in a room, two of them probably share a birthday."
- Character 3: "NO! NOOO!"
- Characters: Two small green goblins in the background.
This comic humorously explores a math concept using whimsical elements like "math goblins."