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They would. The traveller has accidentally doomed them all. edit: this is based on an unfounded assumption because of the wording of the problem - they may onl
by tbrake 13y ago
They would. The traveller has accidentally doomed them all.
edit: this is based on an unfounded assumption because of the wording of the problem - they may only know they don't have blue eyes. But when I read "100 have blue eyes and 900 have brown" it makes it sound binary and I assumed that's knowledge the tribes people have as well, i.e. we have only either blue or brown eyes.
- thedufer 13y agoIn Randall Munroe's version of the problem, he gives the visitor red eyes to explicitly avoid this binary assumption. Obviously, the visitor's statement is slightly different because of this.