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To: VerySadAmerican

If were true, then you’d have a 50% chance of the coin being heads 100 times in a row. Or 1000, or a million times in a row. Seems unlikely.


105 posted on 02/02/2016 4:57:49 AM PST by EnquiringMind
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To: EnquiringMind; VerySadAmerican

The odds ARE the same on each TOSS but that does not mean that the odds of getting heads on every one of a hundred tosses are the same as the odds of getting heads on one. Toss a coin twice and you have a fifty percent chance on either toss but you only have a twenty five percent chance of both being heads or both tails.


120 posted on 02/02/2016 6:07:32 AM PST by RipSawyer (Racism is racism, regardless of the race of the racist.)
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