Timeline for The probability for a streak when tossing a coin
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| Jul 26, 2014 at 7:15 | answer | added | Bjørn Kjos-Hanssen | timeline score: 1 | |
| Oct 28, 2013 at 13:24 | answer | added | Ben Barber | timeline score: 2 | |
| Aug 23, 2013 at 13:53 | comment | added | David E Speyer | Some nice discussion of a worked example at math.stackexchange.com/questions/4658 | |
| Aug 23, 2013 at 5:51 | comment | added | Ori Gurel-Gurevich | Are you only interested in exact solutions or also in approximating/bounding the solution? | |
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| Aug 22, 2013 at 23:52 | answer | added | Dan Piponi | timeline score: 4 | |
| Aug 22, 2013 at 21:56 | answer | added | Chassaing | timeline score: 9 | |
| Aug 22, 2013 at 17:53 | comment | added | Yuichiro Fujiwara | For the case of a fair coin, technically you can compute the probability through Fibonacci n-step number: mathworld.wolfram.com/Fibonaccin-StepNumber.html Here's a fairly recent paper I found on arxiv (arxiv.org/pdf/0905.0304.pdf) about a nice formula for this number. I haven't read it myself yet, but it seems it contains some references as well. If you want code, here's a list on rossetacode.org for a bunch of computer languages: rosettacode.org/wiki/Fibonacci_n-step_number_sequences | |
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| Aug 22, 2013 at 13:57 | comment | added | Douglas Zare | Meta discussion thread: meta.mathoverflow.net/questions/678/… | |
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