Putnam 2020 B3
- Session B
Let , and let be some constant satisfying . Iteratively, for , a point is chosen uniformly from the interval . Let be the smallest value of for which . Find the expected value of , as a function of .
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Solutions
Human solution Solution 1 by Manjul Bhargava, Kiran Kedlaya and Lenny Ng
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