Tossing a coin is random

Submitted by George Polizogo... on Mon, 10/03/2008 - 23:07

Tossing a coin is random isn’t it? Assuming the coin is perfect, and that the tosser isn’t influencing the coin in any way, the probability of the coin landing on either heads or tails is 50/50. Or is bet speak 1:1.

But go ahead. Toss a coin a series of times and tabulate whether you get heads (H) or tails (T). You will find that every now and again there is a series of heads or a series of tails.

I haven’t read the book (yet) but is this phenomenon a part of random walk theory?

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