Some people have a knack for interesting math problems • Mimansa Jaiswal

I have read this and calculated it uptil $n=10$ , but this is still so unintuitive for me.

🔗 Daniel Litt · @littmath · 04:55 PM · Mar 16, 2024 UTC

Flip a fair coin 100 times—it gives a sequence of heads (H) and tails (T). For each HH in the sequence of flips, Alice gets a point; for each HT, Bob does, so e.g. for the sequence THHHT Alice gets 2 points and Bob gets 1 point. Who is most likely to win?

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And the answer is:

🔗 Daniel Litt · @littmath · 05:00 PM · Mar 17, 2024 UTC

The correct answer is “Bob.” Congrats to the 10% who got it right — those few brave dreamers. pic.x.com/menJ81BrKJ

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But how? Why? This is so beyond my mathematical intuition

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@article{jaiswal2024somepeoplehavea,
  title   = {Some people have a knack for interesting math problems},
  author  = {Jaiswal, Mimansa},
  journal = {mimansajaiswal.github.io},
  year    = {2024},
  month   = {Mar},
  url     = {https://mimansajaiswal.github.io/posts/some-people-have-a-knack-for-interesting-math-problems/}
}