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- From: blom@husc15.harvard.edu
- Newsgroups: sci.math
- Subject: Three-sided coin
- Message-ID: <1992Nov20.191504.17650@husc15.harvard.edu>
- Date: 21 Nov 92 00:15:04 GMT
- Article-I.D.: husc15.1992Nov20.191504.17650
- Organization: Harvard University Science Center
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- I came late to this thread, but it sounds like you are looking for a coin that
- would land 1/3 of the time on either face and 1/3 of the time would stabilize
- on its side. For this to be so the width of the coin should equal its radius.
- I don't see why you would need to try different sizes.
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- --Eric Blom
- --Harvard U
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