Re:Ask HN: What's your favorite math/logic puzzle?
by tomachello on Tuesday August 02, 2022 @11:00AM
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They just need one prisoner to guess correctly - then they all win.
Regarding the base case scenario - if each prisoner guesses randomly, each has a 1/100 chance of guessing correctly, and hence they have an expected number of exactly one correct guess. So no deterministic approach can give 2 correct guesses, since no prisoner actually has any real information about their number.
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