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Interestingly, your method is a generalization of Von Neumann's method with more than two coin flips. With TT and HH, the length of the list is one (i.e., no bi
by femtobit 5y ago
Interestingly, your method is a generalization of Von Neumann's method with more than two coin flips. With TT and HH, the length of the list is one (i.e., no bit of information), and with TH and HT, the length is two (exactly one bit of information).
- eru 5y agoThat's an interesting way to look at it, yes! I don't claim originality here either; the method is pretty well known.