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Problem #259

Teleportation

Nik wants to meet Anya, and so he fires up his teleporter. The teleporter works by independently choosing a random real number between 0 and 1 thrice. Suppose the three numbers it chooses are X, Y, and Z. The teleporter then transports Nik to x = \max(X, Y, Z).

As Anya is smart, she will wait for Nik at the coordinate where the expected distance from her to where Nik lands will be the minimum. If she waits at x = L, find \lfloor L\cdot10^9\rfloor, where \lfloor x \rfloor denotes the integer part of x.

Contributed by Sawarnik Kaushal

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