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Old Sat Feb 21, 2009, 11:30pm
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Originally Posted by mbyron View Post
Well, if your question is whether 14/15 is 50%, the answer is no. But the prior probability of flipping a heads is 0.5, even though it doesn't seem that way.

In fact, according to Benford's Law, a long string of the same result would be expected given a long enough series of tosses.
According to Dr. Benford, I'm only 40 years from being even in poker.
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