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The operative words in the rules of both riddles are "appears first".
by frumiousirc 9y ago
The operative words in the rules of both riddles are "appears first".
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- allenz 9y agoYup, Penney's game is surprising because at first glance the probabilities of two sequences of the same length are unrelated. But if more than half of the sequences overlap, then one sequence will tend to arrive before the other. As the proportion of overlap tends to 100%, Player B has a 2:1 advantage over Player A: https://i.imgur.com/eKujwrK.png https://i.imgur.com/eKujwrK.png