Program logic bugs vs input/environmental errors

[Iain Buclaw via Digitalmars-d]

On 10 Oct 2014 01:35, "Joseph Rushton Wakeling via Digitalmars-d" <
digitalmars-d at puremagic.com> wrote:
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> On Wednesday, 8 October 2014 at 07:40:14 UTC, eles wrote:
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>> Of course it does not increase the probability to get a "tails".
Actually, it increases the probability that you'll get "heads" again.
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> Er, no, unless you assume that repeated flips of the coin in some way
deform it so as to bias the outcome.
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> An extended run of heads might lead you to conclude that the coin is
biased, and so increase your _expectation_ that the next flip will also
result in a head, but that doesn't alter the actual underlying probability.

http://www.wired.com/2012/12/what-does-randomness-look-like/
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