{
  "id": "2004.02763",
  "version": "v1",
  "published": "2020-04-06T15:48:08.000Z",
  "updated": "2020-04-06T15:48:08.000Z",
  "title": "A probabilistic proof of the finite geometric series",
  "authors": [
    "Raju Dey",
    "Suchandan Kayal"
  ],
  "categories": [
    "math.PR"
  ],
  "abstract": "In this note, we present a probabilistic proof of the well-known finite geometric series. The proof follows by taking the moments of the sum and the difference of two independent exponentially distributed random variables.",
  "revisions": [
    {
      "version": "v1",
      "updated": "2020-04-06T15:48:08.000Z"
    }
  ],
  "analyses": {
    "keywords": [
      "probabilistic proof",
      "well-known finite geometric series",
      "independent exponentially distributed random variables",
      "difference"
    ],
    "note": {
      "typesetting": "TeX",
      "pages": 0,
      "language": "en",
      "license": "arXiv",
      "status": "editable"
    }
  }
}