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by xvedejas 911 days ago
I think this is the correct way to phrase it. Just because the probabilities of each are both 50% doesn't mean it's more likely than not to get the same number of ones and zeros. It would just mean you're equally likely to get a few more ones as you are to get a few more zeros. But the counts are unlikely to be very far apart.
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But in absolute (not relative terms) the counts will tend to diverge over time.
Yes. You expect the absolute difference in numbers of 0s vs 1s to grow roughly with the square-root of the total number of digits produced.