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Re:Ask HN: What's your speciality, and what's your "FizzBuzz... by jonsen on Thursday January 02, 2014 @09:31PM (#7003838)
... because each coin is equally as likely to be selected from the jar

That's not the reason. It's because the fake coin also has two sides and therefore also 2^11 different outcomes. It just happens they all look the same.

Otherwise I agree with your argument.

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Re:Ask HN: What's your speciality, and what's your "FizzBuzz... by baddox on Saturday January 04, 2014 @07:02AM (#7010806)
True, I could have still used zeros and ones to enumerate all outcomes of the biased coin, but said that both digits represent heads.
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