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  1. Path: sparky!uunet!olivea!charnel!sifon!thunder.mcrcim.mcgill.edu!snorkelwacker.mit.edu!galois!riesz!jbaez
  2. From: jbaez@riesz.mit.edu (John C. Baez)
  3. Newsgroups: sci.math
  4. Subject: Re: Three-sided coin
  5. Message-ID: <1992Nov23.012622.14231@galois.mit.edu>
  6. Date: 23 Nov 92 01:26:22 GMT
  7. References: <1992Nov20.191504.17650@husc15.harvard.edu>
  8. Sender: news@galois.mit.edu
  9. Organization: MIT Department of Mathematics, Cambridge, MA
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  11. Nntp-Posting-Host: riesz
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  13. In article <1992Nov20.191504.17650@husc15.harvard.edu> blom@husc15.harvard.edu writes:
  14. >I came late to this thread, but it sounds like you are looking for a coin that
  15. >would land 1/3 of the time on either face and 1/3 of the time would stabilize
  16. >on its side.  For this to be so the width of the coin should equal its
  17. >radius.  
  18.  
  19. Prove it.
  20.