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Problem #268

Hypothetical Dice

Jaideep is playing a game with 1234567-sided dice, its sides are numbered from 1 to 1234567 and each side has an equal probability of appearing. First, he rolls a die and if the value obtained on the die was k, he takes k dice and rolls all of them. Then find the expected value of the sum of values on all k+1 dice.

Contributed by Yaswanth Chunduru

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