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From: jerry@oliveb.UUCP (Jerry Aguirre)
Newsgroups: net.physics
Subject: Re: Coin flips biassed?
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Date: Wed, 16-May-84 16:15:05 EDT
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Posted: Wed May 16 16:15:05 1984
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I have read of some experiments which involved many thousands of coin
flips.  The result was that the coin was slightly biassed in favor of
tails.  It was postulated that the difference in weights of the two
faces had an effect on the toss.  Of course the bias would vary with
the type of coin used.

					    Jerry Aguirre
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