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    Undergrad Help I need the expected value for a tricky situation

    awkward, that is it! That gives a value of 53.5802554, which is right in the range that my simulation suggests! Thank you so much for the formula and the explanation!
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    Undergrad Help I need the expected value for a tricky situation

    Excellent! It sounds like Stirling numbers of the second kind are definitely related to what I need. (By the way, I love this line from the Wikipedia article: "Stirling numbers of the second kind is one of two types of Stirling numbers, the other type being called Stirling numbers of the...
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    Undergrad Help I need the expected value for a tricky situation

    Hello! I need your help. I’m really terrible at statistics, probability, permutations, and combinations. I’ve looked around a lot for the answer to this, but I haven’t seen anything just like it. I need the answer to this for some research that I’m doing. Here’s the situation: Imagine 60...