What probability doesn’t say. The probability of a head in tossing a coin is 1/2. This means that as we make more tosses, the proportion of heads will eventually get close to 0.5. It does not mean that the count of heads will get close to 1/2 the number of tosses. To see why, imagine that the proportion of heads is 0.51 in 100 tosses, 0.507 in 1000 tosses, 0.5031 in 10,000 tosses, and 0.50074 in 100,000 tosses of a coin. How many heads came up in each set of tosses? How close is the number of heads to half the number of tosses?

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