Re: Easy math question --

On Mon, 14 May 2007 21:27:12 -0700, "brewmaster"
<brewmaster@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

On May 14 2007 6:51 PM, MZB wrote:

If you consider the past pattern then we clearly have a biased coin even by
the most rigid statistical criteria.

If you flip a coin an infinite number of times, what are the odds that it
will come up heads 11 times in a row at some point?

What are the odds it will come up heads 100 times in a row at some point?

What are the odds it will come up heads 1,000,000 times in a row at some
point?

The answer to all of these is, of course, 100%.


Not exactly.

It will only come infinitely close to 100% in an infinite number of
trials.

Anyway, that's my story and I'm sticking to it.
.

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