How Things Work
How Things Work
Kira Seggerty
How to Flip a Coin (probability)
5 minutes Posted Feb 28, 2021 at 10:00 pm.
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This week's episode is on the probability of a coin toss. This study was done by Harvard professor L. Mahadevan and physics graduate student Ee Hou Yong. Here is the link to the article and there is a diagram on the math and geometry of Bertrand's paradox. https://physicstoday.scitation.org/doi/10.1063/PT.3.1178 

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