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Archive for March 3rd, 2004

Let’s toss a coin…

Wednesday March 3, 2004 07:00

…to decide who cleans the house. Sounds pretty fair, after all, a coin toss is completely random isn’t it? Time to guess again.
Researchers in the United States have shown that a coin toss is inherently biased, and more likely to land the same way it started. This is due to the difficulty [...]

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