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japoco11/19/20242 repliesview on HN

Which is either heads or tails.


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glxxyz11/19/2024

A coin with a heads bias is more likely to land on heads no matter how it's thrown.

A coin with a same side bias is more likely to land on heads if it's thrown with heads facing up, and more likely to land on tails if thrown with with tails facing up.

toast011/19/2024

If you take a specific coin and find that when you prepare it to be flipped showing heads up, that it is more likely to land heads up, and that when you prepare it to be flipped tails up, it is more likely to land tails up, it seems confusing to call that coin 'heads or tails biased'