Counterintuitive problem: People in a room keep giving dollars to random others

Re:Counterintuitive problem: People in a room keep giving do... by Jarwain on Sunday July 09, 2017 @03:54PM (#14731349)

I feel like there's some weird fundamental misunderstanding going on here.

The way I interpreted the solution was that every individual will at some point have the max possible amount of money (which is roughly $100).

I don't think jordigh is trying to imply that a single individual will have a majority of the total wealth

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Re:Counterintuitive problem: People in a room keep giving do... by subroutine on Sunday July 09, 2017 @06:36PM (#14732099)

Everyone starts with $100, and there are 100 people, so the max possible would be $100 * 100 - 1

(minus 1 because you give away $1 on every turn).

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