The Coupon Collector's Problem
Ferrante, Marco (Università degli Studi di Padova. Dipartimento di Matematica)
Saltalamacchia, Monica (Università degli Studi di Padova. Dipartimento di Matematica)

Date:	2014
Abstract:	In this note we will consider the following problem: how many coupons we have to purchase (on average) to complete a collection. This problem, which takes everybody back to his childhood when this was really "a problem", has been considered by the probabilists since the eighteenth century and nowadays it is still possible to derive some new results, probably original or at least never published. We will present some classic results, some new formulas, some alternative approaches to obtain known results and a couple of amazing expressions.
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Language:	Anglès
Document:	Article ; divulgació ; Versió publicada
Published in:	Materials matemàtics, 2014, p. 1-35, ISSN 1887-1097

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