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TrE comments on Are coin flips quantum random to my conscious brain-parts? - Less Wrong Discussion

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Comment author: TrE 19 February 2013 11:52:50AM *  3 points [-]

I'm studying physics and learned about the concept of nutation and how it affects randomness in coinflips. The idea is that the coin doesn't actually flip, it just rotates so that the same side is always pointing downwards. That said, I tried it out at home and after a while managed to flip the coin so that the same side would (almost) always appear.