At first glance Lemma 2 seems to yield four possible outcomes.
It is impossible to predict the eventual outcome of the process.
It produces the same outcome whichever path is taken. [= no matter which]
We tabulate the outcome for $n\ge 10$; in particular, the column headed $R$ lists $R(n)$ truncated to three decimal places.
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