Unfair Coin Flip

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Unfair Coin Flip

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RE: Unfair Coin Flip

September 29, 2017 at 1:08 pm

(September 29, 2017 at 1:06 pm)Lutrinae Wrote: If we're ignoring flips to change the average outcome in the end, then of course one can stop flipping when one arrives precisely at 50 heads and 50 tails.

That's not what we were trying to do though. We wanted to simulate a fair coin toss, one in which you know the probability of a heads was the same as the probability of a tails.

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Unfair Coin Flip - by Tiberius - September 29, 2017 at 11:57 am

RE: Unfair Coin Flip - by vorlon13 - September 29, 2017 at 12:01 pm

RE: Unfair Coin Flip - by Tiberius - September 29, 2017 at 12:04 pm

RE: Unfair Coin Flip - by pocaracas - September 29, 2017 at 12:10 pm

RE: Unfair Coin Flip - by Pat Mustard - September 29, 2017 at 2:25 pm

RE: Unfair Coin Flip - by Edwardo Piet - September 29, 2017 at 12:07 pm

RE: Unfair Coin Flip - by Tiberius - September 29, 2017 at 12:10 pm

RE: Unfair Coin Flip - by Edwardo Piet - September 29, 2017 at 12:12 pm

RE: Unfair Coin Flip - by Tiberius - September 29, 2017 at 12:12 pm

RE: Unfair Coin Flip - by RoadRunner79 - September 29, 2017 at 12:14 pm

RE: Unfair Coin Flip - by Tiberius - September 29, 2017 at 12:15 pm

RE: Unfair Coin Flip - by Edwardo Piet - September 29, 2017 at 12:15 pm

RE: Unfair Coin Flip - by The Grand Nudger - September 29, 2017 at 12:19 pm

RE: Unfair Coin Flip - by Tiberius - September 29, 2017 at 12:19 pm

RE: Unfair Coin Flip - by Edwardo Piet - September 29, 2017 at 12:20 pm

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RE: Unfair Coin Flip - by Edwardo Piet - September 29, 2017 at 12:21 pm

RE: Unfair Coin Flip - by Silver - September 29, 2017 at 12:21 pm

RE: Unfair Coin Flip - by Tiberius - September 29, 2017 at 12:22 pm

RE: Unfair Coin Flip - by Tiberius - September 29, 2017 at 12:23 pm

RE: Unfair Coin Flip - by Silver - September 29, 2017 at 12:23 pm

RE: Unfair Coin Flip - by Edwardo Piet - September 29, 2017 at 12:23 pm

RE: Unfair Coin Flip - by Tiberius - September 29, 2017 at 12:24 pm

RE: Unfair Coin Flip - by Edwardo Piet - September 29, 2017 at 12:26 pm

RE: Unfair Coin Flip - by Edwardo Piet - September 29, 2017 at 12:25 pm

RE: Unfair Coin Flip - by Tiberius - September 29, 2017 at 12:25 pm

RE: Unfair Coin Flip - by Brian37 - September 29, 2017 at 12:26 pm

RE: Unfair Coin Flip - by Tiberius - September 29, 2017 at 12:26 pm

RE: Unfair Coin Flip - by Silver - September 29, 2017 at 12:28 pm

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RE: Unfair Coin Flip - by Silver - September 29, 2017 at 1:06 pm

RE: Unfair Coin Flip - by Tiberius - September 29, 2017 at 1:07 pm

RE: Unfair Coin Flip - by Tiberius - September 29, 2017 at 1:08 pm

RE: Unfair Coin Flip - by Silver - September 29, 2017 at 1:10 pm

RE: Unfair Coin Flip - by Tiberius - September 29, 2017 at 1:10 pm

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RE: Unfair Coin Flip - by vorlon13 - September 29, 2017 at 4:52 pm

RE: Unfair Coin Flip - by Brian37 - September 29, 2017 at 5:07 pm

RE: Unfair Coin Flip - by Minimalist - September 30, 2017 at 3:20 pm

RE: Unfair Coin Flip - by Alex K - September 29, 2017 at 5:11 pm

RE: Unfair Coin Flip - by bennyboy - September 29, 2017 at 9:12 pm

RE: Unfair Coin Flip - by ErGingerbreadMandude - September 29, 2017 at 11:38 pm

RE: Unfair Coin Flip - by Tiberius - September 30, 2017 at 1:15 am

RE: Unfair Coin Flip - by Tiberius - September 30, 2017 at 1:21 am

RE: Unfair Coin Flip - by ErGingerbreadMandude - September 30, 2017 at 2:37 am

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RE: Unfair Coin Flip - by Tiberius - September 30, 2017 at 3:08 am

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RE: Unfair Coin Flip - by Edwardo Piet - September 30, 2017 at 5:20 am

RE: Unfair Coin Flip - by pocaracas - September 30, 2017 at 9:34 am

RE: Unfair Coin Flip - by Tiberius - September 30, 2017 at 10:02 am

RE: Unfair Coin Flip - by Edwardo Piet - September 30, 2017 at 11:48 am

RE: Unfair Coin Flip - by pocaracas - September 30, 2017 at 11:55 am

RE: Unfair Coin Flip - by Edwardo Piet - September 30, 2017 at 11:58 am

RE: Unfair Coin Flip - by pocaracas - September 30, 2017 at 12:18 pm

RE: Unfair Coin Flip - by Edwardo Piet - September 30, 2017 at 12:36 pm

RE: Unfair Coin Flip - by pocaracas - September 30, 2017 at 12:47 pm

RE: Unfair Coin Flip - by Edwardo Piet - September 30, 2017 at 1:07 pm

RE: Unfair Coin Flip - by pocaracas - September 30, 2017 at 1:25 pm

RE: Unfair Coin Flip - by brewer - September 30, 2017 at 1:12 pm

RE: Unfair Coin Flip - by Edwardo Piet - September 30, 2017 at 1:17 pm

RE: Unfair Coin Flip - by brewer - September 30, 2017 at 2:06 pm

RE: Unfair Coin Flip - by Edwardo Piet - September 30, 2017 at 2:24 pm

RE: Unfair Coin Flip - by Edwardo Piet - September 30, 2017 at 1:37 pm

RE: Unfair Coin Flip - by pocaracas - September 30, 2017 at 2:25 pm

RE: Unfair Coin Flip - by Tiberius - September 30, 2017 at 3:15 pm

RE: Unfair Coin Flip - by Edwardo Piet - September 30, 2017 at 3:36 pm

RE: Unfair Coin Flip - by bennyboy - September 30, 2017 at 6:55 pm

RE: Unfair Coin Flip - by Brian37 - September 30, 2017 at 6:56 pm

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