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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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