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To: E. Charters who wrote (13984)6/21/2006 3:56:23 AM
From: Gib Bogle  Respond to of 78416
 
"A trial run of fair coins has one chance in 16 of achieving 5 heads or 5 tails in any run of 5 coins!"

Just so that koan doesn't misunderstand, that means a 1 in 32 chance of 5 heads, and a 1 in 32 chance of 5 tails, where of course 1/32 = (1/2)*(1/2)*(1/2)*(1/2)*(1/2) - pretty obvious really since the probability of a head in any toss is 1/2.