@spiderwebsoft There are shades of the Monty Hall problem, though. The 13/27 answer assumes that the "Born on Tuesday" is a prior piece of information. If it is specified as incidental information after the fact (say it could have been Wednesday instead), then one may return to the 1/3 answer.
@ishdo79@sultanofwatts@ammattipyoraily My question was about “natural”. It seems some sports including ice hockey use that term for a hat trick where no one else scores in the meantime. In cricket a hat trick is three wickets in three successive balls.
@PsychRabble Tim Gill regularly comes up with takes that are so unbelievable you have to read then five times to make sure you didn’t hallucinate them. His advice to grass students attending conferences one classic…
@gro_tsen “For having used” doesn’t sound that awkward to me. And I think that corporate-speak is starting to make “for using” a veiled injunction also in English. 2/2
@gro_tsen I agree about the French example, and don’t find seventeen tweets intrinsically excessive on this topic… But I’m not sure I agree about the situation in English. 1/2
Has anyone ever noticed this? If you enter "1..1" in an Excel cell, it is treated as being simply the number "1" in any subsequent algebra. Yet it remains displayed as 1..1. I see that this is due to some dubious logic and compatibility w/ Lotus 1-2-3. Crazy.
@JGBartholomew Yes. On some devices “following” can now be declined as “most recent” or “popular”. The “following” heading has a pull down menu to choose which to use.