heads or tails?

you are blindfolded ad then 100 coins are placed on a table in front of you. 7 are showing heads and 93 show tails.
You may flip coins or sort coins, how do you create two (not necessarily equal) piles such that each pile has the same number of heads showing. (no feeling the coin to see which side its on; this is a strictly mathamatical puzzle)

Originally posted by aginis
you are blindfolded ad then 100 coins are placed on a table in front of you. 7 are showing heads and 93 show tails.
You may flip coins or sort coins, how do you create two (not necessarily equal) piles such that each pile has the same number of heads showing. (no feeling the coin to see which side its on; this is a strictly mathamatical puzzle)

Originally posted by Diapason
Choose any 7 of the coins and slide them carefully to make a second pile (the other 93 constitute the first pile). Turn the 7 coins over. Ta-da!
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Originally posted by aginis
good job now one for all those program lovers same question only now
10^17 coins and 38478 are heads. how do you do it?

Originally posted by AThousandYoung
Take 38478 out of the pile and flip them all over?