A Fair Flip from a Crooked Coin

Two traders need to settle who takes the weekend shift with a fair 50/50 draw, but the only randomizer at hand is a bent coin that lands heads with some unknown probability p p , where 0<p<1 0 < p < 1 . Using nothing but flips of this bent coin, describe a procedure that produces a perfectly fair 50/50 decision — and explain why it works without knowing p p .

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