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Yes, but you are making a big assumption that it will be a fair coin.

In the real world. There are other factors that contribute to gender imbalance(Infanticide, foeticide, mortality etc). Plus also note that once the gender balance goes out of balance it continues get worse with every iteration.

So this basically works like algorithm which is continually trying to increase the count of M's above F's.




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