{"id":3474,"date":"2009-08-26T03:00:44","date_gmt":"2009-08-26T08:00:44","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/swansont\/?p=3474"},"modified":"2009-08-26T03:00:44","modified_gmt":"2009-08-26T08:00:44","slug":"schrodingers-quarter","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/swansont\/archives\/3474","title":{"rendered":"Schr\u00f6dinger&#039;s Quarter"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.codingthewheel.com\/archives\/the-coin-flip-a-fundamentally-unfair-proposition\">The Coin Flip: A Fundamentally Unfair Proposition?<\/a><\/p>\n<p>The physics, and statistics, of flipping a coin.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>The 50-50 proposition is actually more of a 51-49 proposition, if not worse. <strong>The sacred coin flip exhibits (at minimum) a whopping 1% bias<\/strong>, and possibly much more. 1% may not sound like a lot, but it&#8217;s more than the typical casino edge in a game of blackjack or slots. What&#8217;s more, you can take advantage of this little-known fact to give yourself an edge in all future coin-flip battles.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Coin Flip: A Fundamentally Unfair Proposition? The physics, and statistics, of flipping a coin. The 50-50 proposition is actually more of a 51-49 proposition, if not worse. The sacred coin flip exhibits (at minimum) a whopping 1% bias, and &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/swansont\/archives\/3474\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[28,39],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3474","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-math","category-physics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/swansont\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3474","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/swansont\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/swansont\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/swansont\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/swansont\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3474"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/swansont\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3474\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/swansont\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3474"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/swansont\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3474"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/swansont\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3474"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}