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> What is now the probability of heads, we got two different answers for your way of defining he probability? And all it took was an extreme statistical outlier on single day.

The point of probability is that performing an experiment an infinite number of times guarantees that every outcome happens with a proportion that exactly equals its probability (for a formalization of what that even means, look at measure theory). If you get different proportions on different days, you have different probabilities. That means, you weren't performing the same experiment.




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