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Jan 2, 2019 07:41
@Nobodyrecognizeable The problem regarding probability is straightforward. A drawing of the coordinate axes(2D plane) is quite helpful. The first such step has probability $1$. The second such step has probability $\frac{3}{4}$ since retracing the step would not take us beyond the circle in $3$ steps. The third step is a bit more tedious to calculate, but after taking each possibility into account, the probability of the desired step is
Conversation ended Jan 2, 2019 at 7:42.
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