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Alice and Bob start at opposite corners of a 5x5 grid. Alice moves up/right randomly and Bob moves down/left randomly. What is the chance they meet? What happens for an nxn grid? As n goes to infinity, the answer is interesting and involves pi! Watch the video for the solution.
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