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Probability for the length of the longest run in $n$ Bernoulli trials
Suppose a fair coin is tossed n times. Determine the probability that exactly r consecutive heads will occur. Is there a closed form to solve this problem?
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This is the longest run problem. It does admit a closed form solution. See this earlier question of mine. – Sasha Nov 15 '12 at 14:49