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by jmount 3987 days ago
My small take: http://www.win-vector.com/blog/2015/04/i-still-think-you-can...
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If the coin has a substantial thickness, is it still accepted as a coin? I think not. How much density differential do you need to generate a 1% bias in a coin no thicker than any existing UN member currency?
Persi Diaconis did a lot of experiments- the biases are very low.