Re: A markov/probability question

From: Ramanan Sankaran (rsankaraAT_at_umichDOT.edu)
Date: 09/21/04 

Date: Tue, 21 Sep 2004 19:18:09 -0400

Is the N large enough? Is it greater than 1 so that the -1 (departure)
of any colored ball does not deplete that color totally.

> In other words, after a long time and in steady state, whats is the
> probability that the bucket will have balls of only c colors (c < b).

Now, having started with b colors, why should i expect that some will be
depleted? Since you always send out the ball of a color that has the
maximum, i wud expect that no color would get depleted. Or i might be
missing the point here. Can you show a sample sequence of arrivals and
departures, so that we can see why the population of one color would go
down.

-Ramanan.