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Heads and Tails

I invite students to create an unfair coin — one that is biased toward coming up heads or tails — that has the following property: When the coin is flipped twice, the results of the two flips are more likely to be different than the same. In other words, you’re more likely to get heads and tails than to get heads and heads or tails and tails.


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Patrick Honner
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Source: Patrick Honner
Usually, I'd link to Pat's own blog, but this came from his article in Quanta magazine.
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