Re: [algogeeks] Coin Chain Reaction

2011-06-21 Thread Anika Jain
@navneet: i didnt get the question that expected no. of what u r asking?? On Mon, Jun 20, 2011 at 3:56 PM, Navneet Gupta navneetn...@gmail.comwrote: We have an unlimited number of dice at our disposal. Let's roll the die. If the outcome is 1, 2, or 3, we stop; otherwise, if it is 4, 5, or 6,

[algogeeks] Coin Chain Reaction

2011-06-20 Thread Navneet Gupta
We have an unlimited number of dice at our disposal. Let's roll the die. If the outcome is 1, 2, or 3, we stop; otherwise, if it is 4, 5, or 6, a corresponding number of dice are rolled. For example, if the first roll gives 5, then we roll 5 dice, and so on. This procedure continues for every

Re: [algogeeks] Coin Chain Reaction

2011-06-20 Thread sunny agrawal
after first Roll no of Expected No of Dices will be 2.5 1/2(0)+1/6(4+5+6) so after second 2.5^2 so after N rounds 2.5^N On Mon, Jun 20, 2011 at 3:56 PM, Navneet Gupta navneetn...@gmail.comwrote: We have an unlimited number of dice at our disposal. Let's roll the die. If the outcome is 1, 2, or

Re: [algogeeks] Coin Chain Reaction

2011-06-20 Thread sunny agrawal
and Expected value should be 2.5^(N-1)*(7/2) -- Sunny Aggrawal B-Tech IV year,CSI Indian Institute Of Technology,Roorkee -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups Algorithm Geeks group. To post to this group, send email to algogeeks@googlegroups.com. To

RE: [algogeeks] Coin Chain Reaction

2011-06-20 Thread Navneet Gupta
Can you discuss how did you arrive at this value? Sent from my Windows Phone -- From: sunny agrawal Sent: 20/06/2011 22:53 To: algogeeks@googlegroups.com Subject: Re: [algogeeks] Coin Chain Reaction and Expected value should be 2.5^(N-1)*(7/2) -- Sunny Aggrawal B