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An Easy Proof of a Weak Version of Chernoff inequality

Probability 2025-07-08 v2 Data Structures and Algorithms Combinatorics

Abstract

We prove an easy but very weak version of Chernoff inequality. Namely, that the probability that in 6M6M throws of a fair coin, one gets at most MM heads is 1/2M\leq 1/2^M.

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@article{arxiv.2507.02759,
  title  = {An Easy Proof of a Weak Version of Chernoff inequality},
  author = {Sariel Har-Peled},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2507.02759},
  year   = {2025}
}