Kumar Shantanu

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Anna and Brenda are playing a game. They repeatedly toss a coin. Anna wins if 3 heads appear. Brenda wins if 3 tails appear. The heads and tails do not need to be consecutive. What is the expected number of coin tosses for a winner to be determined?

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Coins Collecting Toys I Combinatorics Coupon Collector Expectation geometric-distribution Markov Processes Negative Binomial Distribution Optimal Substructure Reasoning hard
DSA
Graphs
Dark Arts
Resolve Merge Conflicts Valeyere (2025)
Linear Algebra
Inverse of the Matrix Linear Map Matrix Multiplication The Deeper Meaning of Matrix Transpose Vector Projection Vector Space
Polish
Connectors Notes Rules Sentences
Portfolio Management
Mean Variance Portfolio Optimization
Quant Finance
Factor Mimicking Portfolio GARCH (1,1) Stylized Facts for Return Distribution
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Async Rust Rust Jupyter Notebooks Tying Traits to Lifetime
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