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Look, you can't complain about this after giving us so many scenarios involving N locked chests and M unlabeled keys.

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[–] [email protected] -4 points 6 days ago (1 children)

That is if he pulled two individually, one after another.

Not two at the same time.

The odds are two out of ten.

There is no simpler way to explain this, I'm sorry if it still isn't working

[–] [email protected] 4 points 6 days ago

the odds of what exactly are 2/10?