The Suspiciously Even Log
A pit boss rolls a fair six-sided die over and over, stopping at the first , and a machine logs the whole sequence. Later, an auditor reads the log and reports one fact: every roll in the sequence — including the final — was an even number. Given that report, what is the expected length of the logged sequence? (Warning: the answer is not .)
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