Hello Pankaj,

I am sorry as I can be of no help to you. I would love to help but at this
time, am completely ignorant about it.

Regards,
P. Niroula

On Sat, Dec 29, 2012 at 10:06 AM, Luke Pebody <[email protected]> wrote:

> x(A-1) is the probability after deleting the last A-1 characters with
> backspace. This is the probability that the first character is correct.
>
>
>
> On 24 Dec 2012, at 01:58, pankaj gupta <[email protected]> wrote:
>
> Hi,
>
> I am trying to analyze the solution of gcj 2013, Round 1A "Password
> Problem".
>
> http://code.google.com/codejam/contest/1645485/dashboard#s=p0&a=0
>
> In the analysis, I am not able to understand how we will get the x*A*-1 =
> x*A* * p1 , where p1 is probability of typing first character right and
> so on.
> x*A*-1 is the probability after deleting the last one character with
> backspace. Here we are deleting the last character and using the
> probability of first character?
>
>
>    - x*A* = 1
>    - x*A*-1 = x*A* * p1
>    - x*A*-2 = x*A*-1 * p2
>    - etc.
>
> Please help me understand this?
>
> Best regards,
> Pankaj
>
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