Thursday August 19, 2004
Thursday August 19, 2004 here's a puzzle I asked our TSOtool team a few months ago:
Let there be 2 contestants in an election, say W and Al, and Al wins by getting n votes to W's m votes (n > m). What is the probability that as each vote is counted, Al is always ahead of W ? i.e. after every step of the counting, Al has to have more votes than W. Assume votes are counted in random order. Never mind that W becomes president instead.
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