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by gorjusborg 977 days ago
> Probability of two heads: pp > Probability of two tails: (1-p)(1-p) > Probability of head followed by tails: p(1-p) > Probability of tails followed by heads: (1-p)p > > It's not difficult to notice that if you remove the first two, the last two form a 50/50 distribution

Very nice way to illustrate why throwing out the duplicate sequences gets back to a 50/50 distribution.