A knight walks randomly on the standard chessboard. What is the proportion of time that it will spend at e4?
The answer (1/42) is not hard to get, but I'll take the computational approach first (testing Scilab 5.5.0 beta 1, by the way). Begin by placing the knight at b1 and letting it make five random moves. This is the distribution of its position after five moves:
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