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That's cute. intuitively, if two flips give different outcomes, it's fifty/fifty which would be first.


But also, you might have to flip the coin an arbitrarily large number of times before you get a "heads tails" or "tails heads" roll (if I can arbitrarily pick how biased the coin is).


The opening scene of "Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Are Dead" springs to mind.

And that coin wasn't even biased... although Tom Stoppard was a confounding factor.


You are assuming an unbiased coin.

Imagine I glue a poker chip to a washer. There's a clear bias in the outcome of this "coin".

This method resolves that bias.


I understood perfectly already.




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