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How many times will a 12 letter word appear in a string of 1 quintillion random letters?

Let's say we think of a specific 12 letter word. How many times on average will that particular word appear in a string of 1 quintillion (10^21) completely random letters (i.e., uniform/equal probability for each letter A-Z at each position, with no preference for vowels or any other letter)?

What will the actual frequency distribution look like? What would be the formula for that PDF distribution?

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