Introduction to Algorithms
Introduction to Algorithms
3rd Edition
ISBN: 9780262033848
Author: Thomas H. Cormen, Ronald L. Rivest, Charles E. Leiserson, Clifford Stein
Publisher: MIT Press
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Chapter 5.4, Problem 7E
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To show that the probability is less than 1/n that no streak is longer than lgn2lglgn and consecutive heads occur in n flips of a fair coin.

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