A robot is stuck in a circle. The circle had numbers from 0 to n-1 arranged on it. The robot starts from 0 and at every step it randomly moves to its nearest neighbor. For each i from 1 to n-1 find probability that when it is on i for the first time, all other points have been previously visited.

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A robot is stuck in a circle. The circle had numbers from 0 to n-1 arranged on it. The robot starts from 0 and at every step it randomly moves to its nearest neighbor. For each i from 1 to n-1 find probability that when it is on i for the first time, all other points have been previously visited.

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