[Math] How long will it take to get 10 heads in a row flipping coins

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I need a way of solving this problem:
It's not math homework, I legitimately want to know and it's bothering me.

So the probability of having a coin land on heads is .5 or 1/2, so it'll land on heads half the time in a perfect world.
The probability of a coin landing heads ten times in a row is .0009765625.
There are 7,000,000 people on the planet.
Each person can flip a coin 17280 times a day. If every person on the planet flips coins until one person gets ten heads in a row, how long will it take to get the 10 heads in a row?

Best Answer

If you think that everybody flips simultaneously (presumably that was every 5 seconds, 24 hours a day) we can talk in terms of the number of flips. One of every 1024 will get 10 heads starting from the first flip. So it is almost certain that somebody will get it, and the first will be 45 seconds from the start of the experiment.

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