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0 pointsenergy1231mo ago0 comments

Another good one[0] that LLMs (and most humans) can't get without prodding:

> I have one glass coin. Each time I flip the coin, there's a 10% chance it breaks. After 100 flips, what are the chances the coin survived?

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aembleton1mo ago

I can't see what's wrong with that answer. What should the answer be?

energy123OP1mo ago

The silly trick is that, if you flipped it 100 times, then it didn't break the first 99 flips, so it's a conditional probability question in disguise.

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