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To: Joe NYC who wrote (127926)	11/10/2000 5:17:05 AM
From: ptanner	Respond to of 1570897

Joe & Scumbria, Re: 2000 coin tosses I had hoped my probability textbook would clarify the process (ie. have the problem solved specifically) but it didn't really. I was able to work it out in a spreadsheet for up to n=1020 before it ran into too big of numbers. I checked the results (by spreadsheet using binary like Joe) for n=4 and n=8 with the correct results. For n=1020 the answer is 1 in 2.1E+59 so it is headed to zero probability pretty quick. Of course, it never quite gets there. Hopefully someone on the thread will have a little more knowledge in this area and provide the full answer for us... or perhaps we will just have to get some faster computers to solve it analytically. -PT