The traditional even-more-stupidly-clever answer to that is that a pound of feathers weighs more, because precious metals are measured in troy pounds rather than avoirdupois pounds.
Nice. If I were to try to give one like that to the barrels problem, I’d say “barrel 2 please”, because that way, if afterwards I’m asked to choose a barrel to get a random blue egg after all, I won’t have shot myself in the foot by lowering the favorable odds from barrel 1..
The traditional even-more-stupidly-clever answer to that is that a pound of feathers weighs more, because precious metals are measured in troy pounds rather than avoirdupois pounds.
Nice. If I were to try to give one like that to the barrels problem, I’d say “barrel 2 please”, because that way, if afterwards I’m asked to choose a barrel to get a random blue egg after all, I won’t have shot myself in the foot by lowering the favorable odds from barrel 1..