18 Aug
2003
18 Aug
'03
7:28 a.m.
In a perfectly random experiment,how many tails and how many heads do we get? we don't know - or it wouldn't be random :) for a sufficiently large sample you *should* see roughly equal numbers of
Sarad AV wrote: heads and tails in the average case - but : for 32 coins in 2^32 tests you should see: one occurance of all heads (and one of all tails) 32 occurances of one tail, 31 heads (and 32 of one head, 31 tails) 496 occurances of two and so forth up the chain none of these are guaranteed - it *is* random after all - but given a sufficiently large number of tests, statistically you should see the above.