Thread: The Unsinkable Titanic Thompson. Question about odds on page 142
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Old 11-09-2007, 03:55 AM
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Default Re: The Unsinkable Titanic Thompson. Question about odds on page 142
If you call the three coins simultaneously, they are indistinguishable. So if you called 1 heads and two tails, any of the following outcomes is a win for you: HTT, THT, TTH. Hence 3 winning outcomes and 5 losing bad outcomes.

I'm not sure if this works out nicely to the other cases described, but it should.
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