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Unfair Coin Flip
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Unfair Coin Flip
Suppose you have a coin, and you suspect it is unfair (i.e. it lands on one side more often than the other). You don't know which side it lands on more, and for sake of argument assume you can't find out.

How can you simulate a fair coin flip using this coin only? By "fair" I mean that you should get a "heads" result exactly 50% of the time, and a "tails" result exactly 50% of the time.
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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 GUBU - 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
RE: Unfair Coin Flip - by Tiberius - September 29, 2017 at 12:20 pm
RE: Unfair Coin Flip - by Tiberius - September 29, 2017 at 12:20 pm
RE: Unfair Coin Flip - by Edwardo Piet - September 29, 2017 at 12:21 pm
RE: Unfair Coin Flip - by Foxaèr - 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 Foxaèr - 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 Foxaèr - September 29, 2017 at 12:28 pm
RE: Unfair Coin Flip - by Tiberius - September 29, 2017 at 12:29 pm
RE: Unfair Coin Flip - by Edwardo Piet - September 29, 2017 at 12:30 pm
RE: Unfair Coin Flip - by Tiberius - September 29, 2017 at 12:32 pm
RE: Unfair Coin Flip - by Foxaèr - September 29, 2017 at 12:36 pm
RE: Unfair Coin Flip - by Edwardo Piet - September 29, 2017 at 12:37 pm
RE: Unfair Coin Flip - by SteelCurtain - September 29, 2017 at 12:39 pm
RE: Unfair Coin Flip - by Edwardo Piet - September 29, 2017 at 1:38 pm
RE: Unfair Coin Flip - by downbeatplumb - September 29, 2017 at 12:39 pm
RE: Unfair Coin Flip - by Brian37 - September 29, 2017 at 12:42 pm
RE: Unfair Coin Flip - by SteelCurtain - September 29, 2017 at 12:42 pm
RE: Unfair Coin Flip - by Foxaèr - September 29, 2017 at 12:42 pm
RE: Unfair Coin Flip - by Tiberius - September 29, 2017 at 12:42 pm
RE: Unfair Coin Flip - by Tiberius - September 29, 2017 at 12:43 pm
RE: Unfair Coin Flip - by Foxaèr - September 29, 2017 at 12:47 pm
RE: Unfair Coin Flip - by SteelCurtain - September 29, 2017 at 12:47 pm
RE: Unfair Coin Flip - by Tiberius - September 29, 2017 at 12:47 pm
RE: Unfair Coin Flip - by Foxaèr - September 29, 2017 at 12:49 pm
RE: Unfair Coin Flip - by Tiberius - September 29, 2017 at 12:53 pm
RE: Unfair Coin Flip - by vorlon13 - September 29, 2017 at 4:00 pm
RE: Unfair Coin Flip - by SteelCurtain - September 29, 2017 at 12:57 pm
RE: Unfair Coin Flip - by Foxaèr - September 29, 2017 at 12:57 pm
RE: Unfair Coin Flip - by Tiberius - September 29, 2017 at 1:00 pm
RE: Unfair Coin Flip - by Foxaèr - September 29, 2017 at 1:02 pm
RE: Unfair Coin Flip - by Aroura - September 29, 2017 at 1:03 pm
RE: Unfair Coin Flip - by Foxaèr - 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 Foxaèr - September 29, 2017 at 1:10 pm
RE: Unfair Coin Flip - by Tiberius - September 29, 2017 at 1:10 pm
RE: Unfair Coin Flip - by Minimalist - September 29, 2017 at 1:13 pm
RE: Unfair Coin Flip - by pocaracas - September 29, 2017 at 1:27 pm
RE: Unfair Coin Flip - by ErGingerbreadMandude - September 29, 2017 at 1:36 pm
RE: Unfair Coin Flip - by pocaracas - September 29, 2017 at 2:15 pm
RE: Unfair Coin Flip - by Edwardo Piet - September 29, 2017 at 2:59 pm
RE: Unfair Coin Flip - by Brian37 - September 29, 2017 at 2:20 pm
RE: Unfair Coin Flip - by BrianSoddingBoru4 - September 29, 2017 at 3:15 pm
RE: Unfair Coin Flip - by Tiberius - September 29, 2017 at 3:33 pm
RE: Unfair Coin Flip - by Edwardo Piet - September 29, 2017 at 4:04 pm
RE: Unfair Coin Flip - by Autumnlicious - September 29, 2017 at 4:40 pm
RE: Unfair Coin Flip - by brewer - September 29, 2017 at 4:51 pm
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
RE: Unfair Coin Flip - by Tiberius - September 30, 2017 at 2:59 am
RE: Unfair Coin Flip - by Losty - September 30, 2017 at 3:01 am
RE: Unfair Coin Flip - by Tiberius - September 30, 2017 at 3:08 am
RE: Unfair Coin Flip - by Tiberius - September 30, 2017 at 3:09 am
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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