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average of the consecutive coin tosses

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  • Subject: [mg121879] average of the consecutive coin tosses
  • From: michael partensky <partensky at gmail.com>
  • Date: Thu, 6 Oct 2011 04:18:15 -0400 (EDT)
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Hi.

What are the better ways of doing what this guy does very inefficiently for
the average of the consecutive coin tosses:

tr = (flips = 1; (#/flips++) & /@ Accumulate[Table[toss, {1000}]]) // N);

where

toss= RandomInteger[];

Thanks
Michael


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