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off topic: roulette question

Posted By: Bob Koca
Date: Saturday, 12 October 2024, at 6:02 p.m.

In Response To: off topic: roulette question (Max Stockslager)

In a fair coin flip situation, 0 is reached with probability 1, but the expected number of flips to do so is undefined.

One way to see why is to suppose it were a finite value such as 1000. If the experiment is run over and over, then in the long run you would have to be getting tails more than half the time.

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