http://www.dartmouth.edu/~chance/chance_news/recent_news/chance_news_11.02.html Two Polish mathematicians, Tomasz Gliszczynski and Waclaw Zawadowski, set their university statistics classes to research the subject with the Belgian one euro coin. Out of 250 spins, 140 showed the head of the Belgian monarch, King Albert, while 110 showed the one euro symbol.
The test was carried out by spinning the coins on a table rather than tossing them in the air. An unscientific but mind-numbingly thorough test in the Times office showed a similar bias for the German one euro coin, both spinning it on the desk and tossing it in the air. The eagle came out on top 60 times out of 100 mid-air tosses and 54 times when spun on a flat surface. Euro coins have one side which is common
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Date: 2003-09-29 08:30 am (UTC)Two Polish mathematicians, Tomasz Gliszczynski and Waclaw Zawadowski, set their university statistics classes to research the subject with the Belgian one euro coin. Out of 250 spins, 140 showed the head of the Belgian monarch, King Albert, while 110 showed the one euro symbol.
The test was carried out by spinning the coins on a table rather than tossing them in the air. An unscientific but mind-numbingly thorough test in the Times office showed a similar bias for the German one euro coin, both spinning it on the desk and tossing it in the air. The eagle came out on top 60 times out of 100 mid-air tosses and 54 times when spun on a flat surface. Euro coins have one side which is common