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| Oct 11, 2014 at 13:34 | comment | added | Asaf Karagila♦ | @Foon: Not really. Your job is to abuse mathematics and take a 40% safety factor. Mathematicians are the ones whose job description requires them to be super nitpicky and ignore the actual question. | |
| Oct 11, 2014 at 13:20 | comment | added | Foon | @AsafKaragila I is an engineer; pretty sure ignoring the actual question and nitpicking the small mistakes is right there in my job description | |
| Oct 11, 2014 at 11:23 | comment | added | Asaf Karagila♦ | @bof: Or because that wasn't the point of the question, and in a surprising case mathematicians were able to transcend the mistake and talk about the actual question, rather than ignoring the actual question and nitpick the small mistakes? :-) | |
| Oct 11, 2014 at 11:13 | history | edited | bof | CC BY-SA 3.0 |
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| Oct 11, 2014 at 11:11 | comment | added | bof | You are quite right, the OP botched the definition of the St. Petersburg Paradox. I also pointed this out in my comment on the question. I assume the "other people" didn't bother to read the OP's description of the game, because they are already familiar with it and assume OP described it correctly. | |
| Oct 11, 2014 at 1:09 | comment | added | Edward Jiang | I'm sorry, but I'm not asking about the game. I just gave it as an example of something that's counter-intuitive. | |
| Oct 10, 2014 at 21:42 | history | answered | Foon | CC BY-SA 3.0 |