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Daily Archives: April 10, 2010
Alternating coin toss – redux
I want to revisit a probability puzzle from a previous post: see Alternating coin toss game. You play a game where you alternate tossing a coin with a friend, and the first person to toss heads wins. But let’s make … Continue reading