A Ruby Monte Carlo simulation of coin flips
By Alvin Alexander. Last updated: September 3 2017
For some reason or another today I was curious about this question: If you flipped a coin ten times, what are the odds that the coin would come up heads ten times, or tails ten times)?
I'm sure there is a way to determine this statistically, but I don't know how to do that, so, being new to Ruby, I wrote a little Ruby simulation program — essentially a Monte Carlo simulation of the problem — to find the answer. (Pretty boring, I know, but hey, I was bored, interested in learning Ruby, and didn't feel like reading any more of The Stand right now.)
