I am curious to know what were Uston and Unger "special talents" when it came to counting cards at blackjack as solo players. My question therefore excludes team play, the acting part as well as...
Exactly, that's why using combinatorial analysis is not advisable in this type of problems. Not to mention the use of factorials.
A long simulation is much more reliable. Let me give you an example...
Ken Uston had a huge drug problem. Most of the money he made went to cocaine. He died young, either from a drug overdose or a heart attack from the years of drug abuse.
So my code returns 0.0625 which is blatantly incorrect :) as the correct number is 0.3125 if we do exactly 2 consecutive heads or 0.5 if we do 2 or more consecutive heads (3 or 4 in this case). My...
I apologize, I may have formulated the problem incorrectly. What I meant to ask is:
What is the probability of getting 2 or more consecutive heads in 4 tosses of a fair coin (p = 0.5)?
I'm just...