A probabilistic proof of the finite geometric series
Probability
2020-04-07 v1
Abstract
In this note, we present a probabilistic proof of the well-known finite geometric series. The proof follows by taking the moments of the sum and the difference of two independent exponentially distributed random variables.
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@article{arxiv.2004.02763,
title = {A probabilistic proof of the finite geometric series},
author = {Raju Dey and Suchandan Kayal},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2004.02763},
year = {2020}
}