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A driftless Brownian motion starts at . It hits level with probability one eventually. What is the expected time until it does?
- AExactly one unit of time, since the variance reaches one then
- BInfinite
- COne unit of time, by the formula with
- DIt is undefined, because the hitting time can be negative
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