The mathematics of uncertainty
Two events are independent when knowing one tells you nothing about the other. Learning the first coin landed heads doesn't shift the odds for the second. Formally, independence means the conditional probability equals the plain one, P(A|B) = P(A), which rearranges into a clean test:
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▶ Independence