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jayd16 on Nov 4, 2016 | parent | context | favorite | on: H.264 is Magic

I would probably say I found a two headed coin. I also like how "HHHHHHHHHH" is shorter than "I tossed it 10 times, all heads"

robotresearcher on Nov 4, 2016 | [–]

The all-heads sequence is exactly as likely as any other sequence.

pasquinelli on Nov 5, 2016 | | [–]

right, but you can also say there are many sequences that aren't all heads.

err4nt on Nov 4, 2016 | [–]

Which is shortest, you can recover the original dataset from any of the following:

- heads, heads, heads, tails, tails, heads

- hhhtth

- h3t2h

- 3b1

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