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Ah, you're right. This is the case if the coin is flipped with no precession. The paper linked takes precession into account based on the angle you flip the coi
by wakamoleguy 9y ago
Ah, you're right. This is the case if the coin is flipped with no precession. The paper linked takes precession into account based on the angle you flip the coin at, and this significantly changes the time H or T is up. The paper has two excellent graphs depicting this on Page 4.
- vorathing 9y agoThe paper linked was also based on 27 observable coin flips, all made with the same coin-flipping machine. Out of those 27, 18 were between .500 and .504 in probabilities - and the paper concludes by saying that the "the classical assumptions of independence with probability 1/2 are pretty solid". Edit: Actually, 21 out of the 27 flips were in the 0.5 - .505 range.