454.Waiting for H-T-H
★★★expected valueCh. 6 — Random Variables and Expectation444+ Problems in Probability
On average, how many tosses of a fair coin does it take to first observe the pattern HTH?
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Compare with HH: the pattern's self-overlap (it begins and ends with H) changes the answer. States or the martingale casino both work.
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