Coin flipping

Coin flipping or coin tossing is the practice of throwing a coin in the air to resolve a dispute between two parties.

Related Topics:
Coin - Dispute

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Coin flipping is a method that trusts the decision to pure luck, since there is no possibility for strategy, and any attempt to alter the odds (such as, most obviously, using a fake coin with both sides the same) is considered cheating.

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It is generally assumed that the outcome is unpredictable, with equal probabilities for the two outcomes (the fair coin), although careful analysis has shown that is not quite the case.

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Coin tossing is popular because it is fast, more or less fair, and requires nothing but a little spare change.

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