Engineering a Forty Percent Chance

A board-game designer wants a "critical hit" to occur with probability exactly 25 \frac{2}{5} , but the game ships with only a fair coin. Design a procedure using fair coin flips that declares a critical hit with probability exactly 25 \frac{2}{5} , and compute the expected number of flips it consumes.

Answer

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