Talk:Unbias a random generator: Difference between revisions

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I guess I'm doomed to never intuit probabilities; but at least I remember that most times now :-)<br>--[[User:Paddy3118|Paddy3118]] 07:19, 22 February 2011 (UTC)
 
:Just in case you have not worked this out yet: the issue here is that 0 0 is much more likely than 1 1, so when you iterate, your new value of 'this' will almost always be zero. --[[User:Rdm|Rdm]] 16:18, 22 February 2011 (UTC)
::I was leaning towards that explanation. Thanks for the confirmation. --[[User:Paddy3118|Paddy3118]] 16:51, 22 February 2011 (UTC)
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