Pill puzzle
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pill-puzzle-285-17437428
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Pill puzzle
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The pill jar puzzle is a probability puzzle, which asks the expected value of the number of half-pills remaining when the last whole pill is popped from a jar initially containing n whole pills and the way to proceed is by removing a pill from the bottle at random. If the pill removed is a whole pill, it is broken into two half pills. One half pill is consumed and the other one is returned to the jar. If the pill removed is a half pill, then it is simply consumed and nothing is returned to the j
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Math puzzle
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pill_puzzle
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2022-09-21T00:38:01Z
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