Saturday, 17 August 2013

How many balls were drawn? (a combinatorial problem)

How many balls were drawn? (a combinatorial problem)

An experiment is to draw a ball from a pool of N balls labelled with 1, 2,
..., N, with replacement. If one repeats the experiment M times
independently, then what's the average number of different balls that were
drawn?

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