Fun article, but I don’t think this is true: “the probability of getting half the number of tosses as heads and the other half as tails after tossing the coin one million times is nearly 1(0.999999)”. I assume you mean EXACTLY half heads, not allowing for like 500,001 heads. The odds of exactly half heads is considerably lower than 0.999999, closer to 0.9992 (approximately 999 out of a 1000 (rounded), not 999,999 out of a million)
I'm not sure if I have the language to ask the question I have in mind precisely, but wouldn't factors like static charge of the container influence the initial distribution?
Fun article, but I don’t think this is true: “the probability of getting half the number of tosses as heads and the other half as tails after tossing the coin one million times is nearly 1(0.999999)”. I assume you mean EXACTLY half heads, not allowing for like 500,001 heads. The odds of exactly half heads is considerably lower than 0.999999, closer to 0.9992 (approximately 999 out of a 1000 (rounded), not 999,999 out of a million)
I'm not sure if I have the language to ask the question I have in mind precisely, but wouldn't factors like static charge of the container influence the initial distribution?
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