Learn Java with Math: Using Fun Projects and Games

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15. Wright Brothers’ Coin Flip Game

Ron Dai¹ 

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Seattle, WA, USA

 

Programming helps us to understand and explain many complicated problems. You can find an interesting online video, “The coin flip conundrum,” which tells a historic story and explains a probability problem solution using an analytic approach. The story is about the Wright brothers, Orville and Wilbur, who played a coin flip game to determine who should start the new flight experimentation first. They flipped a coin continuously, until Orville got double heads consecutively, or Wilbur received a head and a tail in a “neighboring” sequence. While the video used probability plus algebraic concepts ...