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100 Prisoners & a Light Bulb

Can they coordinate without talking?

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100 prisoners are each in isolated cells. Each day, one prisoner is randomly chosen and brought to a room with a single light bulb.

The light can be switched ON or OFF. Prisoners can't communicate in any other way. The warden will free everyone IF one prisoner can correctly declare: 'All 100 prisoners have visited this room.' If they're wrong, everyone dies. They get to plan a strategy BEFORE isolation. What do they do?