CASE HISTORY -'PENNEY TOSSER'
'Coin Tosser' is being developed (javascript code being rewritten). The game is based upon an amazing contradiction in the mathematical probability relating to the tossing of a coin (a 'penney') -'heads' or 'tails' - an obvious probability of 0.5. So, given the situation in tossing a coin three times in succession you have a one chance in eight of hitting any one of the eight possible sequences, namely: HHH, TTT, HHT, TTH, HTT, THH, HTH, THT.Here is the challenge: whatever sequence of three coins you choose, I will choose an alternative sequence of three. Then in a random series of tosses my sequence will nearly always come up first. For example if you choose H H T and I choose T H H, and then the coin fell successively T H T H H, T H H, my choice would win. Here is but the very first part - practice 'tossing the coin': |
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FINE, WELL DONE - NOW PLAY PENNEY TOSSER ![]() |