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by flir 911 days ago
I read "almost as many" as "not quite as many". In other words, fewer.

My mental model is that an unbiased random stream of 1's and 0's should converge on 50% 1's and 50% 0's over time, not 49% 1's and 51% 0's.

Looks like it's a language ambiguity thing I'm not quite getting.

2 comments

Over time, it should be almost 50/50, yeah. What if you got 10000001 random numbers? There's no way it's exactly 50/50 with an uneven amount. It's almost 50/50
To converge on 50% implies 49%\51% prior. Almost even.