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Unfair Coin Flip
#41
RE: Unfair Coin Flip
I think Steel got it. I'll wait because I assume he's frantically typing out the full answer. Big Grin
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#42
RE: Unfair Coin Flip
If it has to be simulated through a computer program, it's hardly feasible for it to be done accurately and upon one's first attempt using one's two hands and a normal coin, correct?
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#43
RE: Unfair Coin Flip
Not frantically. How dare you.
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#44
RE: Unfair Coin Flip
(September 29, 2017 at 12:47 pm)Lutrinae Wrote: If it has to be simulated through a computer program, there's hardly a way for it to be done accurately and upon one's first attempt using one's two hands and a normal coin, correct?

No need to use a computer program.
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#45
RE: Unfair Coin Flip
Does the coin have to be flipped?

Or does it only have to be flipped once?

So long as at least only one flip has to be performed, I say just drop the coin directly onto a flat surface 50 times, then flip it once to the other side and drop it 50 more times onto a flat surface.
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#46
RE: Unfair Coin Flip
Ok, well here's the solution that Steel hinted at.


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#47
RE: Unfair Coin Flip
Damn I'm smort.

Nods to Poca for the assist.
"There remain four irreducible objections to religious faith: that it wholly misrepresents the origins of man and the cosmos, that because of this original error it manages to combine the maximum servility with the maximum of solipsism, that it is both the result and the cause of dangerous sexual repression, and that it is ultimately grounded on wish-thinking." ~Christopher Hitchens, god is not Great

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#48
RE: Unfair Coin Flip
From my perspective, the theory of chaos would ensure that there is absolutely no way one can get a 50-50 result on the first attempt.

The formula above looks pretty, and I certainly don't understand it, but it seems more like a formula of what could be rather than what absolutely will be.
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#49
RE: Unfair Coin Flip
(September 29, 2017 at 12:57 pm)Lutrinae Wrote: From my perspective, the theory of chaos would ensure that there is absolutely no way one can get a 50-50 result on the first attempt.

The formula above looks pretty, and I certainly don't understand it, but it seems more like a formula of what could be rather than what absolutely will be.

You're guaranteed to get a 50/50 result if you ignore HH or TT flips. The probability of flipping heads and then tails is exactly the same as flipping tails and then heads, regardless of the individual probabilities of heads and tails. This is because it doesn't matter which order you multiple two numbers in, they result in the same value.
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#50
RE: Unfair Coin Flip
But there is still absolutely no way I can grab a coin right now, do precisely one hundred flips, and arrive precisely at 50 heads and 50 tales just from those one hundred flips. That's my point.
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