## Range flips

### Problem 430

Published on Sunday, 2nd June 2013, 07:00 am; Solved by 313

N disks are placed in a row, indexed 1 to N from left to right.
Each disk has a black side and white side. Initially all disks show their white side.

At each turn, two, not necessarily distinct, integers A and B between 1 and N (inclusive) are chosen uniformly at random.
All disks with an index from A to B (inclusive) are flipped.

The following example shows the case N = 8. At the first turn A = 5 and B = 2, and at the second turn A = 4 and B = 6.

Let E(N, M) be the expected number of disks that show their white side after M turns.
We can verify that E(3, 1) = 10/9, E(3, 2) = 5/3, E(10, 4) 5.157 and E(100, 10) 51.893.

Find E(1010, 4000).
Give your answer rounded to 2 decimal places behind the decimal point.