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Virgil is right, it is

$ \sum_{i=1}^n\frac{n}{n - i + 1}\! $

because E[X] is 1/p


More over this can be simplified using the arithmetic series


$ \sum_{i=1}^n a_i = \frac{n(a_1+a_n)}{2}\! $

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