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Consider two remote players, connected by a channel, that don't trust each other. The problem of them agreeing on a random bit by exchanging messages over this channel, without relying on any trusted third party, is called the coin flipping problem in cryptography. [1]
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.
A possible sequence in Penney's game: heads, tails, heads Graphs of best responses for Penney's games of sequence lengths 3 and 4 – each sequence is dominated by the sequence pointing to it with the given probability (italics) or odds (normal text) [1]
A Roman coin with the head of Pompey the Great on the obverse and a ship on the reverse. Coin flipping was known to the Romans as navia aut caput ("ship or head"), as some coins had a ship on one side and the head of the emperor on the other. [1]
Forget polls, the stock market is the most accurate predictor of presidential elections. Will Daniel. Updated September 12, 2024 at 8:40 AM. Photo by SAUL LOEB—AFP/Getty Images.
Safari (web browser) – built-in from Mac OS X 10.3, available as a separate download for Mac OS X 10.2; SeaMonkey – open source Internet application suite; Shiira – open source; Sleipnir – free, by Fenrir Inc; Tor (anonymity network) – free, open source; Torch (web browser) – free, by Torch Media Inc. Vivaldi – free, proprietary ...
A small device, the Predictor, looks like a remote control. It consists of a button and a green display. When you press the button, the screen flashes. However, it flashes a second before you click on the button—by receiving a signal a second from the future. Millions of these devices have been sold.
Flipism, sometimes spelled "flippism", is a personal philosophy under which decisions are made by flipping a coin.It originally appeared in the Donald Duck Disney comic "Flip Decision" [1] [2] by Carl Barks, published in 1953.