Is there not a floor in these calculations as the chips are not returning to their original positions
If you start with yellow and blue stacks with the yellow on the left, and always splitting to the right, are you taking the calculations for them to return to two stacks of same colour, or till the yellow ones are back on the left.
Or even for the purists even then the chips would not be in their original positions, only way to do this is to number each chip and put them in order so even numbers would be in one pile and odd in the other.
i.e.
1 2
3 4
5 6
7 8
Always split to the same direction and always have the same stack grounded first
[ ] can be arsed to do it
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