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by adultSwim 427 days ago
There is an upcoming paper about a difficult pair of prompts.

What is the first digit of the following number: 01111111111111111...1111

What is the last digit of the following number: 11111111111...111111110

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As a reader, which do you imagine to be harder? For both, with arbitrary length, they always get it wrong. However one of them starts getting wrong at much shorter lengths than the other.