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Sleeping Beauty problems

Sleeping Beauty problems is the plural of Sleeping Beauty problem.

Meaning of Sleeping Beauty problem

Noun

Sleeping Beauty problem (plural Sleeping Beauty problems)

  1. (decision theory) A kind of puzzle in which whenever an ideally rational epistemic agent is awoken from sleep, it has no memory of whether it has been awoken before. Upon being told that it has been woken once or twice according to the toss of a coin, once if heads and twice if tails, it is asked its degree of belief for the coin having come up heads.

Questions about Sleeping Beauty problems

What is Sleeping Beauty problems the plural of?
Sleeping Beauty problems is the plural of Sleeping Beauty problem.

Words near Sleeping Beauty problems in the dictionary

  1. sleeping barber problem
  2. sleeping barber problems
  3. sleeping beauties
  4. sleeping beauty
  5. Sleeping Beauty problem
  6. Sleeping Beauty problems
  7. Sleeping Beauty syndrome
  8. sleeping black
  9. sleeping car
  10. sleeping cars
  11. sleeping dictionaries

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