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2,000,000 Coin Tosses (Posted on 2003-03-03) Difficulty: 2 of 5
If a coin is tossed 2,000,000 times, what is the probability that it will come up exactly 1,000,000 times each heads and tails?

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1. the probibility of this outcome is greater than the probibility of any other single outcome.

2. the probibility is zero. At three seconds per flip/record event, this process will take a little under 70 days, during which time you're sure to make a counting mistake of some kind and need to restart, therefore never finishing.

3. (2000000-C-1000000)
  Posted by Cory Taylor on 2003-03-04 03:53:14
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