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Quantify your sense of surprisal, and
find out how your luck stacks up.
  • ...to toss a set of coins 'til you get "all heads".

  • On the warmup toss: you got heads.
  • We expected ± heads.
  • On this toss series: you got all heads after tosses.
  • It usually takes ± tosses to get all heads.

  • The probability of all heads on the first toss is .
  • The odds of all heads on the first toss is 1 to .
  • The surprisal of all heads on the first toss is bits.
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