Talk:Fair coin
Latest comment: 3 years ago by 2603:8000:BA01:4017:4EF:2C99:2D1B:EF2F in topic Fair results from a biased coin
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Merge from Checking if a coin is fair
edit- Please refer to talk:Checking if a coin is fair as there is some older talk about it there. - Nabla (talk) 23:30, 7 May 2008 (UTC)
- Template removed, see talk:Checking whether a coin is fair. Melcombe (talk) 13:22, 11 January 2010 (UTC)
Fair results from a biased coin
editThis method may be improved slightly by also considering sequences of four tosses. - what exactly is this drivel supposed to mean? We've said it's fair, how can we make it more fair? These are absolute terms in mathematics. You can't be more fair than fair. Flagpolewiki (talk) 13:36, 7 January 2016 (UTC)
I have a question about the method of "extending" Neumann's fair-coin procedure to "any power of 2." If we "extend" the same procedure to include 4 coin flips, then we might get a result from something like HHHHTTTT... but wouldn't we stop after the second T, having just flipped HHTT, and therefore H wins? 2603:8000:BA01:4017:4EF:2C99:2D1B:EF2F (talk) 08:44, 23 November 2021 (UTC)