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8 hours ago, CaptainEd said:

Naive again

 

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12C8/4096 = .12084961

 

 

That was the first-cut answer in the ant-chessboard problem.

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The value is too low. It counts only once the (multiple) cases where 8 heads is reached before the "full complement" of 4 tails occurs.

 

The solution is easier to find if we (reasonably) assume that

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the final toss will be Heads.

 

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17 hours ago, plainglazed said:
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Flipping a coin eleven times results in 11C8+11C9+11C10+11C11 or 232 trials that have 8 or more heads.  There are 11C7 or 330 trials that would have exactly seven heads, half of which would have eight heads with one more flip:  

 (11C7/2+11C8+11C9+11C10+11C11)/211=.193848

 

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Equates with the 3x speed version of ants on a checkerboard:
probability of reaching either of the ends of the five meeting points = 794 / 4096

 

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