Coin Flip Brain Teaser

Re:Coin Flip Brain Teaser by noodle on Friday July 24, 2009 @10:43AM (#721497)

there is no guarantee that every 100 flips will shake out exactly 51/49.

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Re:Coin Flip Brain Teaser by khafra on Friday July 24, 2009 @11:25AM (#721614)

In this context, "99% certainty" refers to a specific prediction interval, not "a guess I'm pretty confident in," like it would in colloquial speech. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Prediction_interval may help.

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Re:Coin Flip Brain Teaser by zackattack on Friday July 24, 2009 @10:52AM (#721530)

Please don't post in a math thread if you don't know what you're talking about. Misinformation is really anti-social.

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