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But this requires you know p.
by hyperbovine 5y ago
But this requires you know p.
- eru 5y agoWell, if you want to go backwards, you kind of have to know p? Though I can see an interesting problem: You have a known unbiased coin, and a biased coin with unknown p. Your task is to create a stream of coin flips with bias p. You want to minimize how often you have to flip the biased coin; and somehow work out a way to make use of the unbiased coin to 'stretch' your sequence of biased coin flips. I am not sure if this is possible.