Suppose you were to keep flipping a coin until it landed either HTHHT or HHHHH on five consecutive flips. Which of these two sequences would you predict would occur first?
March 23, 2021
Contributed by Monali Shah on the Discord Server.
Suppose you were to keep flipping a coin until it landed either HTHHT or HHHHH on five consecutive flips. Which of these two sequences would you predict would occur first?
See here. Also, a shorter sequence (HTT vs HTH) but with a similar element of surprise is explained also in this TED Talk: