Problem 1159. Coin Tossing: Probability of Same Heads for N tosses

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Tim on 2 Jan 2013

This fails for test case 4 even though it is mathematically correct--it gives 0.27343749999999994 instead of 0.2734375, while the test suite asks for 0.273438; it seems as though a fair test generally has to be of the form abs(y-y_correct)

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