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Timeline for Cat / mouse probability question

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Sep 23, 2018 at 18:15 comment added joriki @David: Since I didn't calculate them myself and just posted a link to how I let Wolfram|Alpha calculate them, you don't have to know all the theory of how to find them -- basically you just need to verify that applying the matrix to the two vectors in the decomposition does indeed multiply them by the factors $\frac23$ and $0$, respectively -- that's all I'm using to derive the probability distribution.
Sep 23, 2018 at 17:36 comment added David This seems to be the most liked answer by your peers and I appreciate your effort. I haven't heard the terms eigenvalue and eigenvector since my college days.
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