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On pressing a button, a random number is generated uniformly between & . You keep on generating these numbers until their sum exceeds . What is the expected number of times you need to press the button?
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On pressing a button, a random number is generated uniformly between & . You keep on generating these numbers until their sum exceeds . What is the expected number of times you need to press the button?