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I don't have enough time to read the paper in full right now. But I'm curious if using this they could possibly find the solution to the 3 sided coin problem. I
by Cieric 1y ago
I don't have enough time to read the paper in full right now. But I'm curious if using this they could possibly find the solution to the 3 sided coin problem. I haven't heard anything about it since I watched the matt parker video about it.
https://youtu.be/-qqPKKOU-yY https://youtu.be/-qqPKKOU-yY
Or I guess if anyone else knows the answer, that would also satisfy my curiosity.
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- Scaevolus 1y agoThey should be able to simulate it! Here's another answer: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33776796 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33776796
- hnuser123456 1y agoLooks like that post author forgot to loop back to the original question once they found a model that fit their own simulations. Just visually going off the chart, the answer is a "coin" has a 1/3 chance of landing on its edge when its height is 1.7x its radius, or 0.85x its diameter. (the blog author used half-height and the paper he found uses full height)