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 , where . 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 .
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