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Eight drawers problem

Description

You have a chest of 8 drawers. With probability 1/2, you put a letter in one of the drawers. With probability 1/2, you don't put a letter in any drawer. I open the first 7 drawers, all are empty. What is the probability there is a letter in the 8th drawer?

Solutions

A solution based on Bayes' theorem

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A solution based on method Monte Carlo

git clone ...
mvn install exec:java -Dexec.mainClass=MonteCarloSolution