Thank you all for helpful responses, I understand where the difference comes from now!
On 18/03/16 14:26, Andrew Gallagher wrote: > Alternatively, we could consider how we treat the sequence history after > a "success". Do we wipe the slate clean once we get ten heads and start > over? Or if the eleventh toss was another head, do we consider that a > second sequence of ten heads? Ah, in my code, I indeed wipe the slate clean. It feels more appropriate; and since I get the same expected number of throws as the article states, apparently so do they. > The moral of the story is: outside the comfortable walls of mutual > independence, there be dragons. ;-) Oh yes! Cheers, Peter. -- I use the GNU Privacy Guard (GnuPG) in combination with Enigmail. You can send me encrypted mail if you want some privacy. My key is available at <http://digitalbrains.com/2012/openpgp-key-peter> _______________________________________________ Gnupg-users mailing list Gnupg-users@gnupg.org http://lists.gnupg.org/mailman/listinfo/gnupg-users
