FLASH1296 said:
If you flip a coin endlessly it is a tautology that indeed you WILL ultimately flip 100 heads in succession, presuming that you live long enough.
Indeed. What a tautology - how to flip "endlessly" and yet live "long eough".
Hmmm....
Sure, as long as you flip that coin once a second and live 400 million billion years.
Or flip it 400 million billion times a second and then you only have to live one second. That's the way to go when you think about it - flip it really really quickly enough and you won't actually have to live that long after all.
Presuming you live long enough? What in the world are you talking about?
You won't. You can't. It probably will not have happened even once yet since the universe began.
If it were to happen in one's puny lifetime all it would mean is that it was not a fair coin in the first place. It could not be otherwise.
And you're worried about 100,000,000 coin flips? I don't know. I guess you'd have 99,999,900 separate sequences of 100-in-a-row coin flips. On the 99,999,901st flip there won't be enuf room for another 100-flip sequence.
Take it from there. Change the 31st decimal from a 1 to a 2 to account for the diff rom zero.
Whatever. Funny, silly stuff. 100 heads-in-a-row.
What would be your terms if I could come to your house and stay for x years while you flip a coin as often as quickly as you can? I will show up tomorrow with certified funds of $1MM payable to you should it happen in 6 months and only ask $200K in return if it does not happen. To make it fair you can hire up to 1000 people 24/hrs/day for those 6 months flipping a coin as often and as quickly as they can.
Oh hell. Make it 10,000 people if you want.
Oh hell, make it 100,000 people.
Want to bet on that tautology? :laugh: