POV-Ray : Newsgroups : povray.off-topic : Coin game : Re: Coin game Server Time
6 Sep 2024 11:17:05 EDT (-0400)
  Re: Coin game  
From: Invisible
Date: 8 Jan 2009 09:31:29
Message: <49660e41$1@news.povray.org>
Hmm. Tricky.

The number of heads given N tosses of the coin follows a Poisson 
distribution, and the number of tails before hitting a head follows a 
geometric distribution, but what the **** is the average score? A curios 
puzzle indeed...


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