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HMMT November 2014 U30

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Suppose we keep rolling a fair 2014-sided die (whose faces are labelled 1,2,…,20141,2, \ldots, 2014 ) until we obtain a value less than or equal to the previous roll. Let EE be the expected number of times we roll the die. Find the nearest integer to 100E100 E.

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