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Heads Streak in Coin Flips

1,000,000 Experiments of 10 Coin Flips

The goal is to measure luck. How many times can you land heads in a row if you are flipping a coin only 10 times. I personally completed one million experiements of ten coin flips and kept track of the maximum head streaks while graphing the results in 16.2 seconds with the help of computer simulation.

 

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The x-axis is the length of the streak, while the y-axis is represented by the amount of times that max streak happens expressed as a percentage of one million experiments.

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