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hugh3 on Oct 19, 2011 | parent | context | favorite | on: How to turn a biased coin into a Fair Coin

Well, this is why you shouldn't be using semi-well-known problems as interview questions.

aristus on Oct 20, 2011 [–]

A fair cop. :) I used to ask it as a follow-up to a much harder, less "ah-ha" question, to see how candidates approach probability.

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