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Twenty simulated runs of 100 tosses of a fair coin. Each line is the proportion of heads after n tosses. Early on the runs disagree wildly; by 100 tosses they have closed in on 1/2, though not exactly onto it.

Twenty simulated runs of 100 tosses of a fair coin. Each line is the proportion of heads after n tosses. Early on the runs disagree wildly; by 100 tosses they have closed in on 1/2, though not exactly onto it.

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Description. Twenty simulated runs of 100 tosses of a fair coin. Each line is the proportion of heads after n tosses. Early on the runs disagree wildly; by 100 tosses they have closed in on 1/2, though not exactly onto it.

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