The background story is that he was trying to beat the odds from being cheated at a casino using shaved dice; the presumption that dice not even on all sides wo

The background story is that he was trying to beat the odds from being cheated at a casino using shaved dice; the presumption that dice not even on all sides would land more favorably one way than five others. This was before his foray into statistics. After he went into statistics, he discovered that millimeters shaved off a complex shape landing on a rough surface was something very hard to account for. A more simple problem was coin tosses. The first thing that popped in my head was that if the coin tossed was to hit a "rough" surface on the ground, all bets are off again. The article doesn't specify is the experiment was tossing a coin and catching it (which I myself can reliably toss and bias it to the side i want, catching it in my hand, w/o using stats to prove it), or if the coin was to land on a surface of some sort.