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#1 Help Me ! » Coin tossing » 2009-04-27 10:14:57

nikov
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I toss a fair coin 50 times in a row, and write down the result on a sheet of paper (you cannot see this yet). On another sheet of paper I write whatever I want. Then I shuffle two sheets and show them to you. One of them contains 00111100000100110100000111010111101000111101011010, and the other 00000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000. Now you have to guess which of the sheets contains the result of the coin tossing. Can you do better then randomly select a sheet (that would give you success probability of 1/2)?

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