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Timeline for Random Walk or Gambler's Ruin

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Jan 4, 2020 at 18:23 vote accept wjamdanf1234
Jan 4, 2020 at 15:47 answer added gunes timeline score: 1
Jan 4, 2020 at 14:58 history edited wjamdanf1234
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Jan 4, 2020 at 14:33 comment added Xi'an Please add the self-study tag.
Jan 4, 2020 at 13:50 comment added wjamdanf1234 Henry -- thanks for answering! Where is my intuition wrong in the first solution?
Jan 4, 2020 at 13:37 comment added Henry Your alternative answer, more precisely $\approx 0.953026$, is correct. Your $\sum\limits_{n=15,17,..} {n \choose 15} (0.55)^{15} (0.45)^{n-15}$ looks much too small, about $0.006$
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