>>>I already told and everyone already guessed, that 99 have 100% to survive and the last one has 50% probability.
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>>I *THINK* I have it. You have no idea how many different groups of binary numbers I put together trying to see a pattern that can be discernible by a single bit answer.
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>>The last sage says White if there is an even number of white hats ahead of him or black if there is an even number of black hats.
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>>Sage 99 counts the number of black or white hats ahead of him and he can tell immediately if he's black or white.
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>>The rest keep track of the previous answers and so on.
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>>This better be it!
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>>alex
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>Alex,
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>Great solution! (I haven't read the rest of the thread)

Thanks! I think this is the last time I venture into the chatter forum for some quick distraction. ;-)

Alex