Civil Liberties

Luke Weiger lweiger at umich.edu
Fri Sep 21 13:04:28 PDT 2001



> On Thu, 20 Sep 2001 lweiger at umich.edu wrote:
>
> > Yep. However, your're more likely to get heads once by flipping the
coin
> > multiple times. This has nothing to do with the (non)influece of past
> > events on future events. Your chance of not getting heads at least once
in
> > five tries (or, in other words, getting tails five consecutive times) is
> > 1/64.

Oops. As another poster pointed out, the actual odds are 1/32. (Relax. I only wrote this message to antagonize those who wanted the probability thread dead.)

-- Luke



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