RE: Unfair Coin Flip
September 29, 2017 at 4:04 pm
(This post was last modified: September 29, 2017 at 4:08 pm by Edwardo Piet.)
(September 29, 2017 at 3:33 pm)Tiberius Wrote: Your example of it being 60% / 40% every time is true, however when you group together multiple flips the percentages change. That's the key to the simulation, finding two different sequences of flips that have the same probability of occurring.
How would the percentage change in a relevant way if the ratio is the same?
(September 29, 2017 at 12:53 pm)Tiberius Wrote: Ok, well here's the solution that Steel hinted at.
It seems more to me like a math problem with the heads and tails thing only used to make it more palatable to the layman. As grouping together multiple flips and calling that 'simulating a flip' seems like cheating to me. Cheating insofar as it's equivocating and what I meant by the trick question thing.
I am very impressed by the math. Not impressed by the redefinition. I can't math well anyhow.
EDIT: Wait how is disregarding HH and TT results allowed?
lol