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Thursday, January 21, 2010

Drawing letters

A string of alphabets are randomly generated one letter at a time. Each time, one obtains the letter A,\cdots,Z with probability p(A),\cdots, p(Z). Given that the sum of these probabilities is 1, what is the expected number of draws before the string "DHARMATH" appears?

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