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English: The entropy per coin for 3 coins is .5283 bits per coin if two are "heads" while the third is "tails". This effort to simulate random events approaches Shannon's entropy (0.9183) for a 2:1 bias ratio as the number of coins exceeds 10,000.
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Information entropy for collection of one-sided coins to simulate random events

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