VincentYu comments on A Poisson process paradox - Less Wrong

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Comment author: VincentYu 06 April 2012 06:42:39AM *  6 points [-]

This problem is described by the geometric distribution with p = P(no lightning strike on a day), which is a special case of the negative binomial distribution with r = 1.