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‘Deterministic’ = not random,’Stochastic’ = random. • Help! I can’t remember how to sum k p k over the range from k = 0 to infinity! Don’t panic. Use the geometric series trick to sum pksk over the range from k = 0 to infinity, to get answer 1/(1-ps). Then differentiate with respect to s, and set s = 1.
