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Aug 10, 2017

normal distribution, log-normal distribution, how do you compute mean of log-normal distribution in terms of the mean and variance of the underlying normal distribution, Brownian motion, Ito's Lemma, Black-Scholes formula, what are the differences between forwards and futures, what is the swap, how do you price the swap, how do you output correlated random variables with a prescribed coefficient of correlation

Every time a farmer dips a bucket into the well, it comes back with a random amount of water uniformly distributed between 0 and 1 liter, which his cow then drinks. The farmer stops once the cow has consumed more than 1 liter. On average, how many times will the farmer need to dip his bucket into the well before stopping?

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Aug 4, 2024

Every time a farmer dips a bucket into the well, it comes back with a random amount of water uniformly distributed between 0 and 1 liter, which his cow then drinks. The farmer stops once the cow has consumed more than 1 liter. On average, how many times will the farmer need to dip his bucket into the well before stopping?

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