Tuesday, September 4, 2012

What is the Probability of Getting (k) Heads in a Row for (n) Consecutive Tosses?

I asked myself a fun question after reading a post on QuantNet. What are the odds of getting two, four, or six heads after five, ten, or a hundred consecutive tosses of a fair coin? It seemed like a fun high school leveled math problem and with some quick python I was able to generate a pretty graph to answer this question.