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The Hitting Time for the Height of a Random Recursive Tree

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  01 November 2008

THOMAS M. LEWIS
THOMAS M. LEWIS*
Affiliation:
Department of Mathematics, Furman University, Greenville, SC 29613, USA (e-mail: tom.lewis@furman.edu)
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Abstract

In this paper we provide a simple formula for the expected time for a random recursive tree to grow to a given height.

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Combinatorics, Probability and Computing , Volume 17 , Issue 6 , November 2008 , pp. 831 - 835
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Copyright © Cambridge University Press 2008

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