P6.2 At the start of Tom Stoppard's Rosencrantz and Guildenstern are dead 1, Rosencrantz finds a...

 

 

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P6.2 At the start of Tom Stoppard's "Rosencrantz and Guildenstern are dead" 1, Rosencrantz finds a coin. Guildenstern watches as Rosencrantz repeatedly tosses the coin and every time it comes down heads 2. Guildenstern believes that one in a thousand coins found like this are magic and always come down heads, and the rest are unbiased. After how many tosses should Guildenstern be 99% certain that his friend's coin is a magic one? P6.2 At the start of Tom Stoppard's "Rosencrantz and Guildenstern are dead" 1, Rosencrantz finds a coin. Guildenstern watches as Rosencrantz repeatedly tosses the coin and every time it comes down heads 2. Guildenstern believes that one in a thousand coins found like this are magic and always come down heads, and the rest are unbiased. After how many tosses should Guildenstern be 99% certain that his friend's coin is a magic one?