COIN_SIMULATION
Tossing a Coin Many Times


COIN_SIMULATION is a MATLAB library which looks at ways of simulating or visualizing the results of many tosses of a fair or biased coin.

Licensing:

The computer code and data files described and made available on this web page are distributed under the GNU LGPL license.

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COIN_SIMULATION is available in a MATLAB version.

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Last modified on 22 December 2018.