Word Pronunciation & Dictionary

sleeping beauty problem

Word Rarity Uncommon

Frequency: Zipf frequency 4.31 in modern English

Syllables: sleep-ing beau-ty prob-lem
IPA

35

Scrabble Score

21

Letters

4

Syllables

15

Unique Chars

Meaning

noun

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.

Inflected Forms

Sleeping Beauty problems (plural)

Frequently Paired Words

halfer thirder

Questions

What does sleeping beauty problem mean?: 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.

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