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I am looking for an explicit formula for a sequence. The sequence is generated as follows: There is a tournament with $10$ teams. In the beginning, all teams have a 0-0 win-loss record. The teams are ...

Suppose you choose $n$ distinct random numbers from a contiguous subset of cardinality $f({\beta, n})$ with at least $f({\alpha_+, n})$ positive and at least $f({\alpha_-, n})$ negative values from a ...

I wonder what is the expected behavior of this process? Let $f^2_{\mathrm{next}}(n) =$ the next prime after $n^2$. $g_{\mathrm{sqrt}}(n) = \lfloor \sqrt{n} \rfloor$. Now iterate as follows, ...

Let $X_n$ be the "random Fibonacci sequence," defined as follows: $X_0 = 0, X_1 = 1$; $X_n = \pm X_{n-1} \pm X_{n-2}$, where the signs are chosen by independent 50/50 coinflips. It is known ...

I was exploring Pascal's triangle on a cylinder when I encountered this puzzle-like problem. It is surely elementary, but perhaps weekend-entertaining. Start with a permutation of $(1,2,3, \ldots, n)$...