语种:
eng
科图分类法:
G898.2 版次:
中图分类法:
G898.2 版次:
著者:
Ditmarsch, Hans van,
题名:
One hundred prisoners and a light bulb / / ,
其它题名:
100 prisoners and a light bulb
出版发行:
出版地: Cham [Switzerland] ; 出版社: Springer, 出版日期: c2015.
载体形态:
ix, 188 pages : illustrations, 24 cm.
附注:
"Copernicus Books is a brand of Springer." -- Title page.
内容提要:
"A group of 100 prisoners, all together in the prison dining area, are told that they will be all put in isolation cells and then will be interrogated one by one in a room containing a light with an on/off switch. The prisoners may communicate with one another by toggling the light switch (and that is the only way in which they can communicate). The light is initially switched off. There is no fixed order of interrogation, or interval between interrogations, and the same prisoner may be interrogated again at any stage. When interrogated, a prisoner can either do nothing, or toggle the light switch, or announce that all prisoners have been interrogated. If that announcement is tr