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Bernoulli coupling by a shared uniform random variable (P(Br​=Bs​)=∣r−s∣)

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For r,s∈[0,1] and a random variable U with the uniform distribution on [0,1], set Br​=1{U≤r}​ and Bs​=1{U≤s}​. Each has the corresponding Bernoulli distribution, and P(Br​=Bs​)=∣r−s∣, because disagreement occurs precisely between the two thresholds. This is a maximal coupling of the two laws.

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