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Interesting question. I would say yes. But, there are subtle biases:

* coin always favours H or T. simple bias

* coin has some component of behaviour which can be on, off or reset. For example a liquid mercury component, which can bias the H or T outcome but the right kind of "flip" resets it to a known-safe mode so the coin has less to no bias.

* coin has bias which only manifests in skilled hands. a particular kind of flip.

The point I'm making is that probably, the bias is always assumed to be H or T favouring, but doesn't admit more complex coin bias where it could be 2 or more actors and 2 or more capable of biassing, and a pigeon who can't (or a dummy, and a pigeon: a good con generally has more people involved than you think)




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