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| Format: | Preprint |
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2024
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| Online Access: | https://arxiv.org/abs/2410.13426 |
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- Solov'ev (1966), Nielsen (1973), and Blom (1982) independently showed a formula for the expected waiting time until a given finite pattern first occurs in random data. In this paper, we give a simple and combinatorial proof of the formula.