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Experimental test of probabilistic radioactive decay. Trials are run with 20 heads-up pennies. One half-life is one flip of all heads-up coins. All coins landing tails-up are discarded.

Radioactive Decay
Half-life Estimated
remaining
Trial 1 Trial 2 Trial 3 Trial 4 Trial 5 Trial 6
HL0 20 20 20 20 20 20 20
HL1 10 11 11 6 14 10 10
HL2 5 7 8 4 4 4 4
HL3 2.5 2 6 2 3 2 1
HL4 1.25 0 3 0 2 1 1
HL5 0.625 0 2 0 1 1 0
HL6 0.313 0 0 0 0 1 0
HL7 0.156 0 0 0 0 1 0
HL8 0.078 0 0 0 0 1 0
HL9 0.039 0 0 0 0 0 0