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Coin tossing

Is it really necessary to toss the coin N times for a counter with value N on every event just to see if they're all heads? Couldn't we stop as soon as a tail is observed? -- Ralph Corderoy (talk) 08:28, 6 July 2011 (UTC)[reply]