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by aalhour 902 days ago
Not sure that adds up, I translated the right side of the equality into a Python statement and it returns a number I am not sure how to interpret:

  1/99 * sum([(i-1)*i for i in range(2, 100)])   # 3266.666666666667
Both the median and mean are around 12 for 10K runs of the loop.
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I edited my response with an apology! Thanks for checking!
No worries, I think your solution coverges with @Someone's above, if I am not mistaken. You're multiplying the probabilities for all values of j up to i for all values of i.
Yes I am and yes I think it does:

edit - actually, the calculations from the other guy are probability calculations, so this is related to the median. I have given you a mean calculation, which should be related to the average. But you already mentioned that they are close ...