One Observation behind Two-Envelope Puzzles

American Mathematical Monthly

Volumn 111, Issue 4, 2004, Pages 347-351

  Samet, Dov ^a   Samet, Iddo ^b   Schmeidler, David ^a  

^a TEL AVIV UNIVERSITY   (Israel)

^b HEBREW UNIVERSITY OF JERUSALEM   (Israel)

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EID: 2142812862     PISSN: 00029890     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2307/4145244     Document Type: Article

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