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bluescat48
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Message 180 of 312 (455318)
02-11-2008 9:24 PM
Reply to: Message 179 by rulerofthisuniverse
02-11-2008 9:08 PM


rulerofthisuniverse
An argument might be proposed against the above by suggesting that regardless of how many "Flips of the coin", the coin might ALWAYS fall on the NO-GOD side. However the nature of probability and chance make this scenario impossible, and this can be demonstrated mathematically.
Imagine that we have ten coins, and we need to know what the chances are that when flipped ALL the coins will land on heads.
We work this out by multiplying 1/2 (the probability of 1 coin landing heads) 10 times. This makes the probability of all ten coins landing on heads to be...
1/2 x 1/2 x 1/2 x 1/2 x 1/2 x 1/2 x 1/2 x 1/2 x 1/2 x 1/2 = 1/210 = 1/1024.
In other words, the probability of all ten coins landing on heads is 1 in 1,024.
If we did the same thing but this time with a hundred coins we would work the chances out by multiplying 1/2 by itself 100 times. This makes the chances of a hundred coins all landing on heads as 1/2100, which is 1 in 1,267,650,600,228,229,401,496,703,205,376 - a huge number! Don't forget, a BILLION only has 9 zeros, i.e. 1,000,000,000. Imagine if we had 1,000 coins!
Obviously the more coins we add the less likely it becomes, in fact the chances against all the coins landing on heads goes up exponentially. Given the fact that there is no limit on how many coins we can toss (as there are an infinite number of possibility spaces), it becomes mathematically impossible for all the coins to land on just one side. To calculate the chances it would be equal to, half multiplied by itself, an infinite number of times. This of course is an impossible number, making the probability an impossibility. This is a perfect example of how some possibilities, while still being possible cannot actually exist as a reality.
Your logic is flawed in that the probability that it lands tails (YES-GOD) is the same. each throw has 50-50 chance of landing heads or tails. each throw is the same, where the change occurs is in that the probability that either happens on successive throws is still 1 in 2 but for the same (heads or tails) each time is n where n = number of throws.
Edited by bluescat48, : correction

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