I dont know

[Going Merry]

You flip two coins.
One of them lands on heads.
Whats the probability the next coin landing on heads?

Obviously a coin has a 50% chance to flip heads or tails, so 1/2. Unless you go the philosopher side and say it can be HH HT TT .Then sure it could be 1/3 but that's not the point.

Its like 'why' or 'why not'. you know whatever you say bounces off me and sticks to you, what a grand philosopher i've turned out to be.

im really bored talk to me. this thread is pointless. im writing things without thinking! Help!

 

[Nanopants]

It depends.

Yea it would always be 1/2. If you're throwing two coins, the probability that they will land as HH will be 1/4. Another way to think about it is (1/2) * (1/2) = 1/4.

If I were throwing the coins, there would be a 3/4 chance that I would steal the second coin and walk away out of spite, so in that case there would be a (1 - 3/4) * 1/2 = 1/8 probability that the second coin would land on heads and a (1 - 3/4) * 1/4 = 1/16 probability that the result would be HH when throwing two.

 

[Going Merry]

Im not throwing two coins at once! I cant believe you! You darned philosophers ruin everything! *throws 10 years of coin flipping research into the air*

 

[Lord Emsworth]

It is a matter of convention that these hypothetical coins have a chance of 1/2 of coming up heads. At least fair coins. If you bring in biased coins the chances could be anything; 7/8 or something.


(In the real world the chances are very, very close to 100% anyway. The outcome is just too chaotic to predict.)

 

[Upisoft]

You flip two coins.
One of them lands on heads.

Unless you go the philosopher side and say it can be HH HT TT .Then sure it could be 1/3 but that's not the point.

You meant HH, HT or TH

Whats the probability the next coin landing on heads?

Then, with that question you say that first was heads. So, It is HH or HT. Still 1/2.

 

[Going Merry]

Oh God you found the error in my science

 

[Nanopants]

Meh. Close enough for government work.

 

[Wiccan_Child]

You flip two coins.
One of them lands on heads.
Whats the probability the next coin landing on heads?

50%.

Obviously a coin has a 50% chance to flip heads or tails, so 1/2. Unless you go the philosopher side and say it can be HH HT TT .Then sure it could be 1/3 but that's not the point.

It's not 1/3, as a) there are four outcomes (you excluded 'TH', obviously due to the Gay Agenda), and b) we already know it's H first, leaving us with 'HH' and 'HT' - two possibilities, thus 50% odds.

Its like 'why' or 'why not'. you know whatever you say bounces off me and sticks to you, what a grand philosopher i've turned out to be.

im really bored talk to me. this thread is pointless. im writing things without thinking! Help!

I don't think all philosophies are equal or just matters of opinion. Ultimately, mathematics proves me right and you wrong P).

 

[Going Merry]

I dont think therefore I am

 

[Going Merry]

Ok ok how about this. If a immovable object meets a unstoppable force, what happens? I am pretty sure they just pass through each other.. explain that one away! my science is improvable!

 

[Nanopants]

 

[Wiccan_Child]

Ok ok how about this. If a immovable object meets a unstoppable force, what happens? I am pretty sure they just pass through each other.. explain that one away! my science is improvable!

By definition, one can't coexist with the other - if the object is immovable, then the force isn't unstoppable. If the force is unstoppable, then the object isn't immovable. They only have those properties inasmuch as they are immovable/unstoppable, and if they're not, they're not.

 

[Sectio Aurea]

Oh God you found the error in my science

God found the error? I thought it was an atheist.

 

[Upisoft]

Oh God you found the error in my science

That's not science.

 

[Wiccan_Child]

That's not science.

It is, because science is truth, and that's truth, so ipso facto it's de jure truth. SCIENCE!

 

[Upisoft]

Ok ok how about this. If a immovable object meets a unstoppable force, what happens? I am pretty sure they just pass through each other.. explain that one away! my science is improvable!

(im)moveble + (un)stopable = (un)known

 

[Upisoft]

It is, because science is truth, and that's truth, so ipso facto it's de jure truth. SCIENCE!

What that there is 1/3 chance is truth? It is just part of math, statistics. In this case false statistics.

 

[Wiccan_Child]

What that there is 1/3 chance is truth? It is just part of math, statistics. In this case false statistics.

But it's true statistics because of science. And it's science because of the true statistics. It's an inescapable logical conclusion. Because of science.

 

[Upisoft]

But it's true statistics because of science. And it's science because of the true statistics. It's an inescapable logical conclusion. Because of science.

Heh.. btw, where is Nathan Poe?