A prisoner problem variation

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Authors: Jerry Metzger, Thomas J. Richards 

Publication date: 20 April 2015

Full work available at URL: http://www.emis.de/journals/JIS/VOL18/Metzger/metz1.html

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zbMATH Keywords

Markov chainStirling number of the second kindwaiting timebinomial sumbinomial transformationoccupancy problemmultinomial sumbinomial identityinclusion-exclusion counting

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Sums of independent random variables; random walks (60G50) Bell and Stirling numbers (11B73) Binomial coefficients; factorials; (q)-identities (11B65)

Cited In (5)

• The 6666 problem
• A Variation on the Money-Changing Problem
• Slice algorithms for counting in \(U\)-dimensional space
• Geometric Series and a Probability Problem
• Triangular numbers and the \(N\)-sided die optimal stopping problem

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