Fair coin-tossing
Source: Kürschák 1990, problem 3
July 20, 2014
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Problem Statement
We would like to give a present to one of children. We do this by throwing a biased coin times, after predetermining who wins in each possible outcome of this lottery.Prove that we can choose the probability of throwing heads, and the value of such that, by distributing the different outcomes between the children in the right way, we can guarantee that each child has the same probability of winning.