Can any one Explain this easy Question-Candy Game (Practice icpc) with Solution?

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Problem link–https://www.codechef.com/IPC15BMR/problems/CANGAME/
My solution–
SOUT(MATH.MAX(N,M)+"."+“000000”);
How answer is (n*m)??
Thanks in Advance

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This falls under a class of problem’s called Gambler’s ruin, look for absorption time in this document on page 9 (http://www2.math.uu.se/~sea/kurser/stokprocmn1/slumpvandring_eng.pdf . When the flip has equal probabilities then E[X](where X is expected number of games till game finish) is M*N.

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I tried to open the link,its say Error 404 not found

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@vivek96 in the url delete ). at end

Or use this

http://www2.math.uu.se/~sea/kurser/stokprocmn1/slumpvandring_eng.pdf

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thanks @smsubham & @kaiser123.
Happy Coding!

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The logic of the question is not clear …I need to read above link

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