Posted Sun Apr 02, 2006 2:34 am GMT by tutubird
I was just wondering, the chances of flipping a coin say 100 times in a row heads is 1/ ( 2^100) correct?
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Posted Sun Apr 02, 2006 9:00 am GMT by fiezk
The chances of getting heads or tails 100 times in a row is 1/(2^99), the chances of getting either predetermined 100 times in a row is 1/(2^100).
On a side note. Say heads is facing upwards when flipping that coin. Studies show that that side will win about 50.5 percent of the time.
Posted Fri Apr 07, 2006 10:39 pm GMT by LeafsFan1122
| fiezk wrote: | | On a side note. Say heads is facing upwards when flipping that coin. Studies show that that side will win about 50.5 percent of the time. |
Awesome, I was unaware of that! 
Why is that?
Posted Fri Apr 21, 2006 8:42 pm GMT by Arkwell
I would think it was an unreliable experiment
The height at which you toss it would also depend on how many rotations it would have, and I doubt very much that the side in which it starts on plays a role in the side in which it lands on
Just seems false to me...
Posted Fri Apr 21, 2006 11:29 pm GMT by kainARGH
| Arkwell wrote: | I would think it was an unreliable experiment
The height at which you toss it would also depend on how many rotations it would have, and I doubt very much that the side in which it starts on plays a role in the side in which it lands on
Just seems false to me... |
Unless some poor shmuch fliped it 100,000 times , then I might believe him.
Posted Mon Apr 24, 2006 6:22 am GMT by fiezk
| kainARGH wrote: | | Arkwell wrote: | I would think it was an unreliable experiment
The height at which you toss it would also depend on how many rotations it would have, and I doubt very much that the side in which it starts on plays a role in the side in which it lands on
Just seems false to me... |
Unless some poor shmuch fliped it 100,000 times , then I might believe him. |
I read about the study in a poker magazine. A professor at Stanford conducted the experiment using lots of students as coin flippers. According to the article, the sample was big enough to prove his theory.
Posted Mon Apr 24, 2006 9:25 am GMT by supafrey
There is no sample size big enough to prove anything.
But I thought that was a weight issue.. coins aren't perfectly balanced.
Posted Mon Apr 24, 2006 11:12 am GMT by tame_deuces
If we test a coin alot.
And we get a majority of tails.
And we accept that if everything is nicely balanced everything should be random.
Then I'd always bet tails.
It either doesn't matter or it does...so I chose the answer that is the most likely to contain the best of both worlds.
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