[Blog Post] The Pattern of the Wheel on 57v

[Jorge_Stolfi]

If the fact about the number of authors was revealed via some uniform random process (or whatever this is properly called, I mean via a process that represents all outcomes equally well), then yes, your example is a good one. But what happened in reality is the assessment of the number of authors was easily done in the situations where the contents (e.g., a personal diary) lead to an immediate conclusion about the single author. So, it's more like there are tokens either marked S on one side or empty on both sides, after spilling the contents on the floor some of them show S, some of them show nothing.

Good point too.  Or, rather: if the tokens are of different shapes,  you grope blindly into the box for square or triangular ones, and they turn out to be all "S"; but you don't check the round and hexagonal ones, and the one you dropped into the hole was round...

All the best, --jorge