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Manfred comments on Probability puzzle - Less Wrong Discussion

7 Post author: malthrin 28 November 2011 09:33PM

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Comment author: Manfred 29 November 2011 03:08:00AM 0 points [-]

Yeah, if the distribution looked anything like that the answer would just be N=1, bet heads. So in the interest of interesting problems, it should be interpreted as an uniform distribution over P(heads).