An exercise in probability demonstrates the exact chances of flipping a fair coin k times in a row given n tosses.

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Newcomers to the world of data compression often stumble on this old idea in hopes of creating a novel and powerful algorithm. In a nutshell, the idea is to create an enumerative coding system that uses combinatorial numbering to identify a message, in hopes of providing a more compact representation . Unfortunately, these schemes always [...]

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