This is actually essential to the problem. If you would only bet me if the coins came up heads, you could make all the coins heavily biased toward tales. In the rare scenario that 100 coins happened to come up anyways, you could show this to me to try to trick me into accepting, when you know that the next coin, like all the others, is guaranteed to be biased toward tales.
This is actually essential to the problem. If you would only bet me if the coins came up heads, you could make all the coins heavily biased toward tales. In the rare scenario that 100 coins happened to come up anyways, you could show this to me to try to trick me into accepting, when you know that the next coin, like all the others, is guaranteed to be biased toward tales.