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by jonsen 4546 days ago
... because each coin is equally as likely to be selected from the jar

That's not the reason. It's because the fake coin also has two sides and therefore also 2^11 different outcomes. It just happens they all look the same.

Otherwise I agree with your argument.

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True, I could have still used zeros and ones to enumerate all outcomes of the biased coin, but said that both digits represent heads.