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To: TigerClaws

Aren’t the odds the same with every flip? Just like the odds of the lottery coming up 1 2 3 4 5 6 is just as likely as any other number.

Now, if all six coins were flipped at the same time, maybe.


21 posted on 02/01/2016 10:51:30 PM PST by VerySadAmerican
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To: VerySadAmerican

Chances of winning a coin flip six times in a row:

0.5 * 0.5 * 0.5 * 0.5 * 0.5 * 0.5 = 1.56%


24 posted on 02/01/2016 10:53:29 PM PST by kevao (Biblical Jesus: Give your money to the poor. Socialist Jesus: Give your neighbor's money to the poor)
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To: VerySadAmerican

When taken as an aggregate it doesn’t matter if the toss is sequential or at the same time. What you are thinking of is that the NEXT coin toss is still 50% chance.


63 posted on 02/02/2016 12:33:32 AM PST by rmichaelj
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To: VerySadAmerican

Each flip has 50% odds, but that doesn’t change the total odds before or after the fact.

Winning all 5? Yea, that’s a huge long shot.

Wonder if they were issued two-faced coins by their two-faced leader.


82 posted on 02/02/2016 2:42:30 AM PST by SampleMan (Feral Humans are the refuse of socialism.)
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To: VerySadAmerican

If were true, then you’d have a 50% chance of the coin being heads 100 times in a row. Or 1000, or a million times in a row. Seems unlikely.


105 posted on 02/02/2016 4:57:49 AM PST by EnquiringMind
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To: VerySadAmerican
Aren’t the odds the same with every flip? Just like the odds of the lottery coming up 1 2 3 4 5 6 is just as likely as any other number.

The odds of any single flip turning up heads is 50%. And, probability says that, over a long number of flips, half will be heads and half tails. But, the odds of six flips being the same are 0.5^6 (or 0.5 x 0.5 x 0.5 x 0.5 x 0.5 x 0.5) = 0.0156 or 1.56% (not impossible, but pretty unlikely).

109 posted on 02/02/2016 5:10:18 AM PST by jda ("Righteousness exalts a nation . . .")
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