Re: Expected value

In article <3680465.1136872624522.JavaMail.jakarta@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>,
PARASHAR <parashar.dave@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>A string of unit length is cut into n random strings.
>
>(1)What is the expected value of the shortest string
>(2)What is the expected value of the longest string

Assuming you're selecting n-1 cut-points independently
with uniform distribution in the interval [0,1], see the
thread "expected sizes of gaps" from March 1998,
<http://groups.google.ca/group/sci.math/browse_thread/thread/693b7dede0d7f3af/a63d19f5c7c07860>

Robert Israel israel@xxxxxxxxxxx
Department of Mathematics http://www.math.ubc.ca/~israel
University of British Columbia Vancouver, BC, Canada
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