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ILL 1986 Problem 27

    In an urn there are n balls numbered 1,2,⋯ ,n1, 2, \cdots, n . They are drawn at random one by one without replacement and the numbers are recorded. What is the probability that the resulting random permutation has only one local maximum? A term in a sequence is a local maximum if it is greater than all its neighbors.

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