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dennyabraham on Oct 20, 2011 | parent | context | favorite | on: How to turn a biased coin into a Fair Coin

i'm not sure if i understand the problem. couldn't you just take the inverted result of every other flip?

wnight on Oct 20, 2011 [–]

No. With a large bias you'd have hundreds of one result for one of the other.

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