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Comment by taegee

8 hours ago

You don't need conditional probability here, as the flips are independent.

It's just p(H)p(T).

And p(H)p(T) = p(T)p(H), thus 2*p(H)p(T) = 2p(1-p).

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cdaringe  9 minutes ago

Thats how i noodled thru it internally

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