> On 19 Mar 2016, at 15:34, Peter Lebbing <pe...@digitalbrains.com> wrote: > >> On 18/03/16 14:26, Andrew Gallagher wrote: >> Alternatively, we could consider how we treat the sequence history after >> a "success". Do we wipe the slate clean once we get ten heads and start >> over? Or if the eleventh toss was another head, do we consider that a >> second sequence of ten heads? > > Ah, in my code, I indeed wipe the slate clean. It feels more appropriate; and > since I get the same expected number of throws as the article states, > apparently > so do they.
You are correct, as this is implicit in the formulation of the problem: start flipping coins and see how long it takes for a particular pattern to turn up once. The implicit assumption is that you then stop, rather than continuing to accumulate data. And that's where the problems start. :-) A _______________________________________________ Gnupg-users mailing list Gnupg-users@gnupg.org http://lists.gnupg.org/mailman/listinfo/gnupg-users
