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Journal of Applied Probability, Vol. 13, No. 2 (Jun., 1976), pp. 361-364 (4 pages) We give an expression for the expectation of max (0, S1, ⋯, Sn) where Sk is the kth partial sum of a finite sequence ...

I was having dinner with a visiting colleague this week when talk turned to what we were teaching this term. He mentioned the part of calculus dealing with infinite series (the bane of many students) ...