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Many Heads part 2 (Posted on 2021-08-02)

A coin is biased with P(heads)=p.

What is the expected number of flips to get n consecutive heads?

For a fair coin, here is the original Many Heads.

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Subject	Author	Date
re: trial and error with the computer -> Proof	Steven Lord	2021-08-17 20:46:05
trial and error with the computer	Charlie	2021-08-02 13:36:56

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