Yeah, I tried to play work out the solution before looking at the article, but realized that the problem was not even well posed. You could ask for the number o

Yeah, I tried to play work out the solution before looking at the article, but realized that the problem was not even well posed. You could ask for the number of uniforms needed so that the probability of their convolution being greater than one exceeds a certain value, but that's not what he is asking. And yes, he doesn't work with uniform distributions, but Poissons. Weird article.