Can you solve this mathematician's brainteaser?
“There’s something counterintuitive about the fact that a random choice can give you information.”
The mathematician Daniel Litt has gained thousands of followers by posting simple-sounding but deceptively difficult probability problems on ?. You can find more of these problems and detailed explanations of their solutions in his interview on our website. https://www.quantamagazine.org/perplexing-the-web-one-probability-puzzle-at-a-time-20240829/
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