Re: [math-fun] how to test whether a coin is fair

4 Mar 2016

      True, but not useful if one can only perform finitely many tosses.

  --  Gene

      From: Tom Karzes <karzes@sonic.net>
 To: math-fun <math-fun@mailman.xmission.com> 
 Sent: Friday, March 4, 2016 6:28 PM
 Subject: Re: [math-fun] how to test whether a coin is fair

Assuming a fixed probability per toss, with each toss independent of
each other toss, I believe The Law of Large Numbers says that h/(h+t)
must converge to the true probability of the coin landing on "heads".

Tom

Mike Stay writes:
...
What's your take on
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Checking_whether_a_coin_is_fair ?

Re: [math-fun] how to test whether a coin is fair

Eugene Salamin