The HLL principle seems quite similar to this way of approximating a biased coin with a fair one by counting the 1s in binary http://amakelov.wordpress.com/201

The HLL principle seems quite similar to this way of approximating a biased coin with a fair one by counting the 1s in binary http://amakelov.wordpress.com/2013/10/10/arbitrarily-biasing-a-coin-in-2-expected-tosses/ http://amakelov.wordpress.com/2013/10/10/arbitrarily-biasing...