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Suppose we keep rolling a fair 2014-sided die (whose faces are labelled 1, 2, .., 2014) until we obtain a value less than or equal to the previous roll. Let EE be the expected number of times we roll the die. Find the nearest integer to 100E100 E.
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Suppose we keep rolling a fair 2014-sided die (whose faces are labelled 1, 2, .., 2014) until we obtain a value less than or equal to the previous roll. Let E be the expected number of times we roll the die. Find the nearest integer to 100E.
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Suppose we keep rolling a fair 2014-sided die (whose faces are labelled 1, 2, .., 2014) until we obtain a value less than or equal to the previous roll. Let $E$ be the expected number of times we roll the die. Find the nearest integer to $100 E$.

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