226.Two Heads With a Biased Coin
★★★expected valueJane Street
A coin lands heads with probability 0.8. It is tossed repeatedly. What is the expected number of tosses to first see two consecutive heads?
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Use two states — no progress and one head banked — and note that a tail wipes the run out entirely.
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