An explanation of the apparent paradox in the Monty Hall puzzle.

The Monty Hall problem is an interesting probability puzzler, made famous by Marilyn vos Savant in 1990. It is a problem that has puzzled many great mathematicians like Paul Erdős but it is easier to understand if you write out the code to simulate it.Wikipedia has a lot more detail but here's the problem as specified by vos Savant:Suppose you're on a game show, and you're given the choice of three doors: Behind one door is a car.