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The coin flip conundrum - Po-Shen Loh

By TEDEdFrom YoutubeJanuary 8, 2026

When you flip a coin to make a decision, there's an equal chance of getting heads and tails. What if you flipped two coins repeatedly, so that one option would win as soon as two heads showed up in a row on that coin, and one option would win as soon as heads was immediately followed by tails on the other? Would each option still have an equal chance? Po-Shen Loh describes the counterintuitive math behind this question.

#Coin Flip
#Probability
#Conundrum
#Paradox
#Chance
#Uncertainty
#Strategy
#Solution
#Po-Shen Loh