Coin flip
Revision as of 14:02, 10 October 2023 by Altilunium (talk | contribs) (Created page with "{{Cquote|A coin flip -- the act of spinning a coin into the air with your thumb and then catching it in your hand -- is often considered the epitome of a chance event. It features as a ubiquitous example in textbooks on probability theory and statistics, and constituted a game of chance ('capita aut navia' -- 'heads of ships') already in Roman times. According to the standard model of coin flipping, the flip is a deterministic process. The perceived randomness originat...")