@InProceedings{jin:LIPIcs.ISAAC.2016.39, author = {Jin, Kai}, title = {{Computing the Pattern Waiting Time: A Revisit of the Intuitive Approach}}, booktitle = {27th International Symposium on Algorithms and Computation (ISAAC 2016)}, pages = {39:1--39:12}, series = {Leibniz International Proceedings in Informatics (LIPIcs)}, ISBN = {978-3-95977-026-2}, ISSN = {1868-8969}, year = {2016}, volume = {64}, editor = {Hong, Seok-Hee}, publisher = {Schloss Dagstuhl -- Leibniz-Zentrum f{\"u}r Informatik}, address = {Dagstuhl, Germany}, URL = {https://drops.dagstuhl.de/entities/document/10.4230/LIPIcs.ISAAC.2016.39}, URN = {urn:nbn:de:0030-drops-68096}, doi = {10.4230/LIPIcs.ISAAC.2016.39}, annote = {Keywords: Pattern Occurrence, Waiting Time, Penney’s Game, Markov Chain} }