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Old 02-03-2004, 10:06 PM   #8 (permalink)
PorscheBunny
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Originally posted by The_Dude
I bet it can be predicted if you analize the flipping angle, the force of the flip, air resistance, etc....
… and by the time you analyzed all the potential data, you'd find that it is impossible for the human hand to flip a fair coin accurately enough consistently to make it disobey probability (ie 50% heads over an infinite number of flips).

You can make a machine do it, but the margin needed for a particular result would be so small as to be less than errors in measurements, thus it would likely still appear random. (If anyone wishes to construct a machine to test this hypothesis, I'll chip in a few bucks for science.)
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