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  2. Coin flipping - Wikipedia

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    Coin flipping, coin tossing, or heads or tails is the practice of throwing a coin in the air and checking which side is showing when it lands, in order to randomly choose between two alternatives. It is a form of sortition which inherently has two possible outcomes.

  3. Persi Diaconis - Wikipedia

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    Persi Warren Diaconis (/ ˌ d aɪ ə ˈ k oʊ n ɪ s /; born January 31, 1945) is an American mathematician of Greek descent and former professional magician. [2] [3] He is the Mary V. Sunseri Professor of Statistics and Mathematics at Stanford University.

  4. George Raft - Wikipedia

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    In the film, he plays second-in-command Guino Rinaldo, who falls in love with Camonte's sister and is murdered by him. Raft's performance is notable for his character's habit of flipping a coin, which became an iconic trope in gangster films; while others claimed credit for the mannerism, writer W.R. Burnett confirmed that it was Raft who ...

  5. Sixty years ago, Chiefs franchise won first championship ...

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    This was one of the most famous blunders on a coin toss in football history. Skip to main content. Sign in. Mail. 24/7 Help. For premium support please call: 800-290-4726 more ways to reach us ...

  6. 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 ...

  7. The Chiefs show a knack for turning coin-flip games into wins

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    NEW ORLEANS (AP) — Close games in the NFL are typically like coin flips with one or two key plays often the difference between a win or a loss. When Patrick Mahomes and Kansas City have been in ...

  8. Flipism - Wikipedia

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    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.

  9. Portland Penny - Wikipedia

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    The Portland Penny is the name subsequently given to a specific copper matron head one-cent coin, used to decide the name of Portland, Oregon, United States. The City of Portland's two founders, Francis Pettygrove from Portland, Maine and Asa Lovejoy from Boston, Massachusetts , both wanted to name the fledgling site—then known as The ...