Last night, I dreamed of a novel algorithm for deriving a fair (i.e. uniformly distributed) coin from a biased one.
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Replying to @drethelin
@drethelin It's obv. how to do d4 or d8. For d6 do d8 and ignore results of 7 and 8. etc. etc.1 reply 0 retweets 0 likes -
Replying to @St_Rev
@St_Rev@drethelin weird implication: on average you need more coinflips for d6 than for d8.1 reply 0 retweets 0 likes
Replying to @emareaf
@emareaf @drethelin Well, you can improve it by doing 2 flips and starting over if you get 2 heads.
12:14 PM - 14 Feb 2014
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