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| Sep 12, 2015 at 17:54 | comment | added | T J | The process can fail for example after iteration #$y$, if all the randomly chosen balls were black. | |
| Sep 12, 2015 at 17:53 | comment | added | T J | @DouglasZare - Perhaps I was not clear enough. Only if throughout the $n$ iterations, there was always at least one white ball, then this is a success. i.e., if there were white balls in stages 0-20 and 22-$n$, this is still a failure. | |
| Sep 12, 2015 at 16:36 | comment | added | Douglas Zare | Do you really mean that when the bag starts with white balls, the process is a success? And that if there isn't a success, then step 1 could never be used? | |
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| Sep 12, 2015 at 10:14 | history | asked | T J | CC BY-SA 3.0 |