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To: Elsie
Only if the DESIGN if the coin has been 3D modeled INTO the computer.

Not necessary. Inferences can be made from observing outcomes, no design data is needed. To predict a coin with no worse than 50% chance, two strategies are available: first, pick the last outcome and second, pick the outcome which has dominated so far. Both are better than picking heads or tails at random.

720 posted on 03/04/2004 5:58:11 AM PST by Doctor Stochastic (Vegetabilisch = chaotisch is der Charakter der Modernen. - Friedrich Schlegel)
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To: Doctor Stochastic
To predict a coin with no worse than 50% chance, two strategies are available: first, pick the last outcome and second, pick the outcome which has dominated so far. Both are better than picking heads or tails at random.

I was going to suggest "tit for tat" selection.

721 posted on 03/04/2004 6:43:16 AM PST by balrog666 (Two things are infinite: the universe and human stupidity; and I'm not sure about the universe.)
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