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@@ -24,7 +24,7 @@ where $s_{t+1} \sim P(s_{t+1} \mid s_t, a_t)$ is the next state of the robot and
 
 We next break down the trajectory into two stages (i) the first stage which corresponds to $s_0 \to s_1$ upon taking the action $a_0$, and (ii) a second stage which is the trajectory $\tau' = (s_1, a_1, r_1, \ldots)$ thereafter. The key idea behind all algorithms in reinforcement learning is that the value of state $s_0$ can be written as the average reward obtained in the first stage and the value function averaged over all possible next states $s_1$. This is quite intuitive and arises from our Markov assumption: the average return from the current state is the sum of the average return from the next state and the average reward of going to the next state. Mathematically, we write the two stages as
 
-$$V^\pi(s_0) = r(s_0, a_0) + \gamma\ E_{a_0 \sim \pi(s_0)} \Big[ E_{s_1 \sim P(s_1 \mid s_0, a_0)} \Big[ V^\pi(s_1) \Big] \Big].$$
+$$V^\pi(s_0) = E_{a_0 \sim \pi(s_0)} \Big[ r(s_0, a_0) \Big] + \gamma\ E_{a_0 \sim \pi(s_0)} \Big[ E_{s_1 \sim P(s_1 \mid s_0, a_0)} \Big[ V^\pi(s_1) \Big] \Big].$$
 :eqlabel:`eq_dynamic_programming`
 
 This decomposition is very powerful: it is the foundation of the principle of dynamic programming upon which all reinforcement learning algorithms are based. Notice that the second stage gets two expectations, one over the choices of the action $a_0$ taken in the first stage using the stochastic policy and another over the possible states $s_1$ obtained from the chosen action. We can write :eqref:`eq_dynamic_programming` using the transition probabilities in the Markov decision process (MDP) as