Coin Toss???

the-commish · 11-17-2011, 10:27 AM

I can solve that. Just call thing each coin flip (be it HEADS or TAILS). Then you've got to win at least a few of them.

FinSaint · 11-18-2011, 09:43 PM

Originally Posted by the-commish

I can solve that. Just call thing each coin flip (be it HEADS or TAILS). Then you've got to win at least a few of them.

Actually that is not true, since the probability is always 50% it makes no difference which side is picked, because it is in a sense as probable that they get 100 tails in a row as it is they get 100 heads in a row or any mix in between.

The coin toss is pure chance (because of the odds and there being no continuity from one toss to another) unless f.e. the gravings they have on the two sides of the coin make it unbalanced so that it affects its trajectory and makes it more probable that it lands a certain side up or that the mechanics of the toss itself somehow makes one outcome more probable than the other. But all those factors being equal - any string of outcomes is as probable as another string of outcomes.

11-18-2011, 09:43 PM	#2
FinSaint Site Donor 2015 Join Date: Aug 2011 Location: Finland... formerly Southern Virginia Posts: 4,964	Originally Posted by the-commish I can solve that. Just call thing each coin flip (be it HEADS or TAILS). Then you've got to win at least a few of them. Actually that is not true, since the probability is always 50% it makes no difference which side is picked, because it is in a sense as probable that they get 100 tails in a row as it is they get 100 heads in a row or any mix in between. The coin toss is pure chance (because of the odds and there being no continuity from one toss to another) unless f.e. the gravings they have on the two sides of the coin make it unbalanced so that it affects its trajectory and makes it more probable that it lands a certain side up or that the mechanics of the toss itself somehow makes one outcome more probable than the other. But all those factors being equal - any string of outcomes is as probable as another string of outcomes.
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11-17-2011, 10:27 AM	#1
the-commish Longtime WhoDat Join Date: Dec 2009 Location: Henderson, NV Posts: 529	I can solve that. Just call thing each coin flip (be it HEADS or TAILS). Then you've got to win at least a few of them.