"are You the One?" Is Free Money
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For 0, it's a well known [1] result 1/e, I remember a puzzle where people left their hat and then pick one randomly.
Looking at the table it looks like the general formula is 1/(e*n!) that is a Possion distribution. Compare with https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Poisson_distribution#Examples_...
Anyway, I'm not sure if my observation helps too much to solve the original problem. [1] at least I know it :)