Introduction to Algorithms
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Author: Thomas H. Cormen, Ronald L. Rivest, Charles E. Leiserson, Clifford Stein
Publisher: MIT Press
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To find out which is more likely obtaining no heads when a fair coin is flipped ntimes or obtaining fewer than nheads when a coin is flipped 4ntimes .
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Introduction to Algorithms
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