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doogliustoday at 4:50 PM1 replyview on HN

"fair coin" refers to both the probability of heads and tails being equal (which is still justified) as well as the trials being independent (unlikely with 100/200; more likely the "coin" is some imperfect PRNG in a loop)


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tshaddoxtoday at 5:13 PM

> more likely the "coin" is some imperfect PRNG in a loop

"More likely"? How can you even estimate the likelihood of the coin being "an imperfect PRNG" based on a single trial of 200 flips?

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