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A university project explaining a phenomenon of a coin tossing game called Penney Ante. This project has been originally written in Mathematica. Parts of the original project have been later rewritten in Java as a simple frame application. Penney Ante is a coin tossing game invented in 1969 by a mathematician called Walter Penney. It is played by two players. Each player selects a pattern of three heads and tails. The two patterns must be different. The players then flip a fair coin...

A university project explaining a phenomenon of a coin tossing game called Penney Ante. Penney Ante is a coin tossing game invented in 1969 by a mathematician called Walter Penney. It is played by two players. Each player selects a pattern of three heads and tails. The two patterns must be different. The players then flip a fair coin repeatedly until one of the patterns appears. The winner is a person whose pattern appears first. Although initially the game appears to be fair...