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A Fair Coin From an Unfair One
the two-flip trick
You have a coin that is unfair: it lands heads more often than tails, but you don't know by how much. How can you use it to make a perfectly fair 50/50 choice?
Source: A classic puzzle, retold by INFINITE SUM and fact-checked against our curated notes
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