Jai-Alai Question of the Week


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AND, the answer is ...

Posted on September 26, 2012 at 01:50:03 PM by Tiger

... exactly 50 percent.

Sorry, but the coin has no memory, and isn't 'yearning to get even.' That's a common fallacy - surprised we haven't heard more from the 'due crew' on this one. In fact, if you made another 200 flips, the single most likely total would be:

You have to imagine a (very) long hall with little rooms on each side - an unlimited number of them, in fact. And, in every room, there's someone flipping a coin. In some, heads leads, in others, tails. One or two might even be dead even. And, in one of those, there's a guy who's hit 60 tails and 40 heads, exactly counterbalancing our original flipper.

And, we haven't even mentioned parallel universes. :)

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