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Cobra
03-14-2005, 07:07 PM
What is the formula for determining the number of combinations not permutations when flipping a coin. For example if you flip four coins how many combinations of heads and tails would you have.
Cobra
gaming_mouse
03-14-2005, 07:44 PM
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What is the formula for determining the number of combinations not permutations when flipping a coin. For example if you flip four coins how many combinations of heads and tails would you have.
Cobra
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not sure what you mean. but the answer must be either:
2^4
or
4+1
as far as i can see. can you explain?
Cobra
03-14-2005, 09:20 PM
Thanks for the reply Gaming Mouse, I was just thinking of the other question asked about using a coin flip and coming up with one third probability. What I was trying to figure out is if I flipped a coin say N times how many different combinations I might get. For example if I had HHHH thats one combo, HHHT and HHTH and HTHH and THHH would all be counted as a second combo of 3H and 1T. I didn't know if I could come up with a number of combo's that was divisible by 3.
Cobra
gaming_mouse
03-14-2005, 09:33 PM
the number of possible combos (in the sense you describe) is alway 2^n for some n. So it will never be divisible by 3.
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