Matt Parker, employing the enviably pithy prose typical of a content creator forged on the unforgiving fires of social media, asked the simple question back in 2018:
How thick is a three-sided coin?
Translated into mathematician-ese, this means
What aspect ratio of a flipped coin leads to the chance of landing on either edge being the same as landing on a particular face?
Such is Matt’s reach that this question has been answered thoroughly many – times – before, but that’s never discouraged us. Let’s take a look.
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