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Old 10-13-2005, 02:16 PM
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Default Re: interesting coin flip problem

All coin flips are completely independent. Regardless of how many you intend to flip and and how many you have flipped already and there results, each coin flip will have a 1/2 chance of being heads or tails. This deals with the law of large numbers. We can't apply the law of large numbers to a scenario in which there are only 2 trials. The greater the amount of trials preformed, the lower and lower the standard deviation becomes. When tossing coins, no matter what, chances are 50-50.
Knowing that you're tossing two coins does not change that.
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