Saturday, December 8, 2007

Flipping Coins

someone walks into your room and dumps a huge bag of quarters all over the floor. they spread them out so no quarters are on top of any other quarters. a robot then comes into the room and is programmed such that if it sees a head, it flips it to tails. if it sees a tail, it throws it in the air. the robot moves around randomly forever. will there be a convergence in distribution of heads vs. tails?

1 comment:

Unknown said...

Answer 2/3 are tails for steady-state condition.