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How can you get a fair coin toss if someone hands you a coin that is weighted to come up heads more often than tails?

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How can you get a fair coin toss if someone hands you a coin that is weighted to come up heads more often than tails?
posted May 20, 2014 by Salil Agrawal

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We should use tails on top while flipping always !!!

answer Jan 15, 2016 by Tejas Naik
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If you know that it's weighted to come up heads more often than tails, then it's simply a matter of tossing the coin 'bout a hundred times and figure out the "weighted" average of heads versus tails.

So the answer is (just like the stock market): Foreknowledge.

answer Oct 9, 2016 by George Davros



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