4 Mar
2016
4 Mar
'16
10:01 p.m.
Not *exactly* true. A fair coin can have any sequence in {H, T}^omega show up. The probability is often 0, but that doesn't keep something from happening. —Dan
On Mar 4, 2016, at 6:48 PM, Eugene Salamin via math-fun <math-fun@mailman.xmission.com> wrote:
True, but not useful if one can only perform finitely many tosses.
-- Gene
From: Tom Karzes <karzes@sonic.net> To: math-fun <math-fun@mailman.xmission.com> Sent: Friday, March 4, 2016 6:28 PM Subject: Re: [math-fun] how to test whether a coin is fair
Assuming a fixed probability per toss, with each toss independent of each other toss, I believe The Law of Large Numbers says that h/(h+t) must converge to the true probability of the coin landing on "heads".