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Chapter 4
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You might at first think if I flip a coin 100 times there are only ten chances to get 10 heads in a row. But there are really 91:
1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10, or
2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11, or
91 92 93 94 95 96 97 98 99 100.
Thus, if the chance of 10 heads is ~ 1 in 1,000 and I make 91 attempts, the odds are 1/1000 x 100 = 1/10 = 10%. See Chapter 5 for the precise definition of coin-flip probabilities.