August 6th, 2013, 12:13 pm
Each time you perform a tie, it either: converts two ropes into one longer rope or converts one rope into one ring. Both cases reduce the number of ropes available for tying in the next round. That is, the number of remaining ropes (of varying lengths) that are NOT in rings drops by 1.Given 100 ropes and 100 tie operations, ALL ropes will become tied into rings of varying circumference.If "expected number of ropes that would have tied to their own end" includes long multi-segment ropes tied to their own ends, then the answer is all 100 ropes will be rings
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Traden4Alpha on August 5th, 2013, 10:00 pm, edited 1 time in total.