Importantly - you don't have to know the odds of the coin ahead of time, or which side is more likely. You only need to know that it is consistent.

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IncreasePosts 2 years ago | parent [-]

The odds are important to know because if someone gave you a trick coin that always lands on heads, you will be flipping coins until the end of the universe. And I'm sure you have more important things to do than that.

	▲	magicalhippo 2 years ago \| parent \| next [-]
		> you will be flipping coins until the end of the universe Reminds me of one of my favorite movies, Rosencrantz & Guildenstern Are Dead, which opens with just such a scenario[1]. [1]: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RjOqaD5tWB0
	▲	Vecr 2 years ago \| parent \| prev [-]
		Nah, you can put in a rule to stop. It would be better to know ahead of time, but you don't need to.