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Subject: Re: Nope -- You have to play them all. NO shortcuts.

Author: Christophe Theron

Date: 21:11:18 01/28/00

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On January 28, 2000 at 17:12:44, Tim Mirabile wrote:

>On January 28, 2000 at 15:01:01, Dann Corbit wrote:
>
>>Take a penny and flip it ten times.
>
>Just flip the coin once.  Now you know that heads (or tails) is infinitely
>stronger, so there is no need to do any further tests. :)


You assumed that the error margin for a 1 game match (1 flip) was under 100%.

In this case it is just 100%, so you cannot draw any conclusion... And you need
to play again.


    Christophe



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