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If the coin is only biased a tiny amount, like most real coins are, the number of necessary flips becomes much larger.
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Jarry once wrote, expressing some of the bizarre logic of ' pataphysics, " If you let a coin fall and it falls, the next time it is just by an infinite coincidence that it will fall again the same way ; hundreds of other coins on other hands will follow this pattern in an infinitely unimaginable fashion ".
If the coin is judged favorably in all of these criteria, it will generally be awarded a higher grade.
If the teams remain tied, overtime periods continue, with a coin flip determining the first possession.
If a coin is greatly lacking in all of these, it is unlikely to be worth much.
If the coin is fair, then the probability of the next flip being heads is 1 / 2.
If one flips a coin 21 times in a row and obtains 21 heads, one might rationally conclude a high probability of bias towards heads, and hence conclude that future flips of this coin are also highly likely to be heads.
If an individual coin toss or the roll of dice is considered to be a random event, then if repeated many times the sequence of random events will exhibit certain patterns, which can be studied and predicted.
One may ask " If I were to flip a fair coin 100 times, what is the probability of it landing heads-up every time?
If we are tossing a coin, then the negative binomial distribution can give the number of heads (“ success ”) we are likely to encounter before we encounter a certain number of tails (“ failure ”).
If V is a probabilisitic Turing Machine which could possible accept x if x is in X, then the proof is the string of coin flips which leads the machine, by luck, intuition, or genius, to accepting x.
If we know not just, but the earlier values as well, then we can determine which coins have been drawn, and we know that the next coin will not be a nickel, so we can determine that with probability 1.
“ If the head-side is up, the game would be called Mei-Chu ; otherwise, the game would be called Chu-Mei .” As the head-side of the coin went up, the tournament was thereby named Meichu to commemorate the two founding presidents of NTHU and NCTU, Dr. Mei Yi-Chi, and Dr. Ling Chu-Ming.
Let the coin tosses be represented by a sequence of independent random variables, each of which is equal to H with probability p, and T with probability Let N be time of appearance of the first H ; in other words,, and If the coin never shows H, we write N is itself a random variable because it depends on the random outcomes of the coin tosses.
If the black box works then the coin does not drop.
If the momentum imparted to the coin as it is launched were known with sufficient accuracy,
" If someone comes to my grave, gives a coin to charity, and says these ten Psalms Tikkun HaKlali, I will pull him out from the depths of Gehinnom!
If the employer had deduced from the interviews so far that both candidates would complete the task in somewhere between 195 and 205 hours, it would be in the employer's best interests to choose one or the other by some easily-applied metric ( for example, flipping a coin ) rather than spend the $ 100 on determining the better candidate, saving at most $ 100 in labor.
If part of the die chips out, showing as a raised, unstruck area on the coin, it is called a chip.
If he found people drinking from a fountain, he gave them a half-crown coin.
If not provided for on the obverse, the reverse side usually contains information relating to a coin's role as medium of exchange ( such as the value of the coin ).
# If Alice's revelation matches the coin result Bob reported, Alice wins
:( 1 ) If the coin had been flipped, it would have landed heads.
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If the circumstances are faced frankly it is not reasonable to expect this to be true.
If his dancers are sometimes made to look as if they might be creatures from Mars, this is consistent with his intention of placing them in the orbit of another world, a world in which they are freed of their pedestrian identities.
If a work is divided into several large segments, a last-minute drawing of random numbers may determine the order of the segments for any particular performance.
If they avoid the use of the pungent, outlawed four-letter word it is because it is taboo ; ;
If Wilhelm Reich is the Moses who has led them out of the Egypt of sexual slavery, Dylan Thomas is the poet who offers them the Dionysian dialectic of justification for their indulgence in liquor, marijuana, sex, and jazz.
If he is the child of nothingness, if he is the predestined victim of an age of atomic wars, then he will consult only his own organic needs and go beyond good and evil.
If it is an honest feeling, then why should she not yield to it??
If he thus achieves a lyrical, dreamlike, drugged intensity, he pays the price for his indulgence by producing work -- Allen Ginsberg's `` Howl '' is a striking example of this tendency -- that is disoriented, Dionysian but without depth and without Apollonian control.
If love reflects the nature of man, as Ortega Y Gasset believes, if the person in love betrays decisively what he is by his behavior in love, then the writers of the beat generation are creating a new literary genre.
If he is good, he may not be legal ; ;
If the man on the sidewalk is surprised at this question, it has served as an exclamation.
If the existent form is to be retained new factors that reinforce it must be introduced into the situation.
If we remove ourselves for a moment from our time and our infatuation with mental disease, isn't there something absurd about a hero in a novel who is defeated by his infantile neurosis??
If many of the characters in contemporary novels appear to be the bloodless relations of characters in a case history it is because the novelist is often forgetful today that those things that we call character manifest themselves in surface behavior, that the ego is still the executive agency of personality, and that all we know of personality must be discerned through the ego.
If he is a traditionalist, he is an eclectic traditionalist.
If our sincerity is granted, and it is granted, the discrepancy can only be explained by the fact that we have come to believe hearsay and legend about ourselves in preference to an understanding gained by earnest self-examination.
If to be innocent is to be helpless, then I had been -- as are we all -- helpless at the start.
If and only
If there were only darkness, all would be clear.
If there were only the mess, all would be clear ; ;
Defoe then commented, `` If they Could Draw that young Gentleman into Their Measures They would show themselves quickly, for they are not asham'd to Say They want only a head to Make a beginning ''.
If it is not one of his best books, it can only be considered unsatisfactory when compared with his own Garibaldi.
If only for this modest masterpiece of military history, Blenheim is likely to be read and reread long after newer interpretations have perhaps altered our picture of the Marlborough wars.
If only this could be done more often -- with such heartening results -- many of the earth's `` big problems '' would shrink to the insignificances they really are.
If he had any worries, it was only the small ones, about Mother in New York, and his daughter Edwina and what she might be doing at this hour, with her Aunt Asia, in Philadelphia.
If only the fucken weather wasn't so lousy!!
Somebody, got to be somebody If I don't put my two cents in soon, somebody else will I know they're waitin only for one thing: for the bastards what done it to be nailed.
If only Simms Purdew could do that, whatever the thing he remembered and told.
`` If he would only leave the East '', said Mary.
If only there was a clock for him to crawl against.
If the artist would study his work more thoroughly and move certain units in his design, often only slightly, finer pictures would result.
If you have a full-time doctor now, can he be replaced with a part-time doctor or one who serves on a fee-per-case basis only??
If you wish to budget closely on transportation, saving your extra dollars to indulge in luxuries, one agency lists the small Fiat 500 at only $1.26 a day plus $.03 a kilometer and the Fiat 2100 Station Wagon, seating six, at just $1.10 a day and $.105 a kilometer.
`` If I could only think of something at the studio, near me, to absorb his boundless energy '', I said.
If this is the case, one would expect that not only the various procedures just mentioned which alter the hypothalamic balance would influence emotional state and behavior but that emotion itself would act likewise.
If adjectival meanings show relatively low retentiveness of stems, as I am confident will prove to be the case in most languages of the world, why should our basic lists include 15 per cent of these unstable forms, but only 8 per cent of animals and plants which replace much more slowly??
If only state funds were used to pay for the vocational education, it could be argued that the state should not have to bear the cost of vocational training which would benefit employers in other states.
If so, then it is clear that in saying the suffering was bad we are not expressing our feelings only.
If goodness and badness lie in attitudes only and hence are brought into being by them, those men who greeted death and misery with childishly merry laughter are taking the only sensible line.
If there is nothing evil in these things, if they get their moral complexion only from our feeling about them, why shouldn't they be greeted with a cheer??
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