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Re: Coin Flip Experiment:

From "Mr. Man-wai Chang" <toylet.toylet@gmail.com>
Newsgroups sci.math, comp.programming, comp.lang.c
Subject Re: Coin Flip Experiment:
Date 2016-12-31 23:19 +0800
Organization Hung Hom, Kowloon, Hong Kong
Message-ID <o48i6k$n3s$3@dont-email.me> (permalink)
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On 31/12/2016 9:34 PM, Simon Roberts wrote:
> for i = 1 to M
> Y= 0
> for j = 1 to N
> Y = Y + outcome_j
> X_i = Y
> <repeat>

Did you really flip a physical coin?? How do you guarantee randomness 
and fairness? :)

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