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Instead of actually programming, I flipped 2 coins this morning and left them on my desk. They are still sitting there. Either HT, TH, HH or TT I just rememb

Instead of actually programming, I flipped 2 coins this morning and left them on my desk. They are still sitting there. Either HT, TH, HH or TT I just remembered one of them is tails, so is there is a 1/2 chance that they are both tails now? Nope it's 1/3 chance they are both tails. Either HT, TH, or TT.

ajanuary 13y ago
Of course that's a much simpler way to simulate the problem, but then you get people trying to argue that HT and TH should be collapsed into a single state. By using a simulation with repetition it's easier to pose the states as 'TT' and 'not TT' and use frequencies to show 'not TT' occurs more frequently than 'TT'. I find this starts to help convince people that the states shouldn't be collapsed, even if it doesn't explicitly explain why.