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A coin tossing problem of R. L. Rivest

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Bachelis, G.F., Massey, F.J. (1990). A coin tossing problem of R. L. Rivest. In: Fujita, H., Ikebe, T., Kuroda, S.T. (eds) Functional-Analytic Methods for Partial Differential Equations. Lecture Notes in Mathematics, vol 1450. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/BFb0084897

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