Author: blass uri
Date: 02:57:29 01/13/00
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On January 13, 2000 at 04:30:50, Dann Corbit wrote: <snipped> >"Which is stronger, heads or tails?" >We flip a coin. The side that comes up most is stronger. Go ahead and try it >-- everybody. Quite surprisingly, most people will *not* get 10/10, even though >they really are almost exactly even. >Here is my sequence: >T - T - H - H - T - H - H - H - H - T - H - H - T - H - T - T - H - H - T - T >9 tails and 11 heads (I used one of those fancy new quarters with a Georgia >peach.) Seems like heads is a little stronger. How about some other results? >I will not be at all surprised if someone gets 15 of one kind. Yet we know they >are about even. > >It is *exactly* the same with chess programs that are about even. Like, for >instance, Fritz and Rebel. It is not exactly the same because programs can also draw. another differnce is that program with white has not the same probability as program with black and the last difference is that your coin does not learn from previous experiments. Uri
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