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Originally Posted by radix
The odds do change as you flip the coin, in a way. While the odds of selection of any one independent flip remain 0.5, they diminish exponentially with each successive successful selection. In other words, they are 0.5^n where n represents the number of consecutive heads or tails. Put another way, the probability of getting heads 10 times in a row is 0.5^10 or 0.0009765625.
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Whoa man lets not look at it too hard, this was off my 3rd grade nephews homework last week when I was watching him. For the sake of most the world, the odds when flipping a coin are 50/50
But yes that would make sense, consecutively the odds of anything happening repeatedly diminish exponentially.