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Getting a Fair Flip out of an Unfair Coin
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jjinux.blogspot.com
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gcheong
on June 3, 2011
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yaks_hairbrush
on June 3, 2011
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John von Neumann came up with this algorithm. Basically, it goes like this: flip coin twice. If result is HH or TT, flip it twice again. If result is HT, player 1 wins, if result is TH, player 2 wins.
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