The Absent-Minded First Patron
A sold-out recital hall has numbered seats and ticket holders who enter one at a time. The first patron has misplaced her ticket, so she sits in a uniformly random seat. Every patron after her sits in their own assigned seat if it is still empty; otherwise they pick a uniformly random empty seat. What is the probability that the very last patron to enter ends up in his own assigned seat?
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