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What is the probability of a coin landing on its edge?

2•vivzkestrel•1h ago
- You see coin toss examples everywhere saying it would be heads or tails

- Is there a way to actually calculate the probability of a coin landing on its edge?

- what factors would affect this?

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tossthediceaway•1h ago
https://www.cs.cmu.edu/~kmcrane/Projects/RestingBodies/Putti...

That is the paper you want, it's about more shapes then just coins but you can special case it to a coin.

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