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MathNet 2012 Question 17

Math Olympiad Vault · MathNet 2012

Question 17

You have a twig of length $1$. You repeatedly do the following: select two points on the twig independently and uniformly at random, make cuts on these two points, and keep only the largest piece. After $2012$ repetitions, what is the expected length of the remaining piece?