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How to Answer Questions of the Type: If you toss a coin n times, how likely is HH to show up more than HT?

Published 22 May 2024 in math.CO and math.PR | (2405.13561v1)

Abstract: On March 16, 2024, Daniel Litt, in an X-post, proposed the following brainteaser: "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?" We show the power of symbolic computation, in particular the (continuous) Almkvist-Zeilberger algorithm, to answer this, and far more general, questions of this kind.

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