ELI5 how I don’t get 50 heads and 50 tails when flipping 100 coins

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What’s the mathematical law around this?

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Because every flip starts the probability over. Say you flip the coin 5 times and it become heads 2 times and tails 3 times. You flip it a sixth time if every flip was connected to the last probability wise it would end up being heads. But since each action of the flip starts back to 50/50 heads and tails both have the same probability to occur each time.

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