Programming your calculator
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COIN
Purpose
Simulate tossing a coin and counting how often a head is obtained.
Operation
Enter the (whole) number of tosses. There is no limit on the number, except your time
and batteries. With fresh batteries, the calculator will need about 30 seconds for each
thousand tosses.
The program will display how many of the tosses were 'heads'.
Do this a few times to see how much it varies each time. Compare your results with
someone else's.
If you wish to simulate tosses of a biased coin, you will need to change the fourth line
of the program. For example, a change to
will simulate tossing a coin with only a 45% chance of a head each time.
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