Author: Georg v. Zimmermann
Date: 00:25:29 05/02/00
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On May 02, 2000 at 02:59:24, Dann Corbit wrote: >A coin is approximately fair. > >Flip it 20 times. Heads is program A. Tails is program B. The odds of exactly >10:10 is very, very low. > >Try repeating the experiment ten times. You may be surprised at the wide >variety that you see. > >This is reflected in the results for nearly equal programs. I suggest you save this explanation somewhere as "CCC-test.txt" on your computer so that you don't have to retype it every time someone is suprised about a "strange" outcome of a 20 games tourney/match etc... Its a very good illustration by the way. --Georg
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