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  2. Coin flipping - Wikipedia

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    The coin toss in cricket is more important than in other games because in many situations it can lead a team winning or losing the game. Factors such as pitch conditions, weather and the time of day are considered by the team captain who wins the toss. Now there are websites such as flip a coin online which domestic sports team use to toss the ...

  3. Flipism - Wikipedia

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    It originally appeared in the Donald Duck Disney comic "Flip Decision" [1] [2] by Carl Barks, published in 1953. Barks called a practitioner of "flipism" a "flippist". [3] [4] An actual coin is not necessary: dice or another random generator may be used for decision making.

  4. Penney's game - Wikipedia

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    As this card-based version is quite similar to multiple repetitions of the original coin game, the second player's advantage is greatly amplified. The probabilities are slightly different because the odds for each flip of a coin are independent while the odds of drawing a red or black card each time is dependent on previous draws. Note that HHT ...

  5. St. Petersburg paradox - Wikipedia

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    The St. Petersburg paradox or St. Petersburg lottery [1] is a paradox involving the game of flipping a coin where the expected payoff of the lottery game is infinite but nevertheless seems to be worth only a very small amount to the participants. The St. Petersburg paradox is a situation where a naïve decision criterion that takes only the ...

  6. Bride and groom use coin toss to determine who takes whose ...

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    This couple's "non-traditional" way of deciding their last name is going viral on TikTok. Travel blogger @diaryofasolotraveler, aka Alyssa Danielle, shared how her friends ditched the old school ...

  7. Two-up - Wikipedia

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    Outside view of the two-up shed in Kalgoorlie, Western Australia. Two original 1915 Australian pennies in a kip from which they are tossed. 1915 is significant as the year of the Gallipoli campaign which is remembered annually on Anzac Day Australian soldiers playing two-up during World War I at the front near Ypres, 23 December 1917 Painting of two-up game.

  8. Bernoulli process - Wikipedia

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    For example, if x represents a sequence of coin flips, then the associated Bernoulli sequence is the list of natural numbers or time-points for which the coin toss outcome is heads. So defined, a Bernoulli sequence Z x {\displaystyle \mathbb {Z} ^{x}} is also a random subset of the index set, the natural numbers N {\displaystyle \mathbb {N} } .

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