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We survey the current status of the list of questions related to the favourite (or: most visited) sites of simple random walk on Z, raised by Pál Erdős and Pál Révész in the early eighties.
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Shi, Z., Tóth, B. Favourite sites of simple random walk. Periodica Mathematica Hungarica 41, 237–249 (2000). https://doi.org/10.1023/A:1010389026544
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