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Given that we stop after the first failure technically this should be a negative binomial distribution (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Negative_binomial_distribution) with p = 0.979 and r = 1. The mean is p / (1-p) = 46.62. Also there is a p ^ 75 = 0.204 chance that someone of same skill will achieve a better score.


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