The other day, I was sitting in my physics lab (radiation detection) and my professor said that our next lab was to flip a coin 200 times. He then said: "If you have any programming skills, you can do it with a program." You should have seen the smile on my face when I heard that. So, sitting in my apartment that night, while talking to my girlfriend, I had a revelation.

perl -e "for(1..200) {print ['H','T']->[rand(2)]}"

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Note: This was done under Win32 with ActivePerl 522 (5005_03), which is the reason for the double quotes. Any more golfing welcome...

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In reply to New golf game (for the extremely bored) by Necos

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