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Subject: Correction.

Author: Dan Andersson

Date: 13:27:14 02/27/05

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> As far as I can see, this random algorithm is equivalent to this
>combinatorial/probability problem:
> Given a bag of N tokens. How many times will you need to draw a
random > token
and lay the token back >until you
>have seen them all?
> A hint: Expected number of tokens drawn for the first one is 1. And for the
>second 1 plus the sum of probabilities for one to an infinite number of misses.
>
>MvH Dan Andersson



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