When.com Web Search

  1. Ad

    related to: flip a coin heads or tails

Search results

  1. Results From The WOW.Com Content Network
  2. Coin flipping - Wikipedia

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Coin_flipping

    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. Checking whether a coin is fair - Wikipedia

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Checking_whether_a_coin_is...

    The symbols H and T represent more generalised variables expressing the numbers of heads and tails respectively that might have been observed in the experiment. Thus N = H + T = h + t. Next, let r be the actual probability of obtaining heads in a single toss of the coin. This is the property of the coin which is being investigated.

  4. Sleeping Beauty problem - Wikipedia

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sleeping_Beauty_problem

    Imagine tossing a coin, if the coin comes up heads, a green ball is placed into a box; if, instead, the coin comes up tails, two red balls are placed into a box. We repeat this procedure a large number of times until the box is full of balls of both colours.

  5. Ludic fallacy - Wikipedia

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ludic_fallacy

    A third party asks them to "assume that a coin is fair, i.e., has an equal probability of coming up heads or tails when flipped. I flip it ninety-nine times and get heads each time. What are the odds of my getting tails on my next throw?" Dr. John says that the odds are not affected by the previous outcomes so the odds must still be 50:50.

  6. Penney's game - Wikipedia

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Penney's_game

    Player A selects a sequence of heads and tails (of length 3 or larger), and shows this sequence to player B. Player B then selects another sequence of heads and tails of the same length. Subsequently, a fair coin is tossed until either player A's or player B's sequence appears as a consecutive subsequence of the coin toss outcomes. The player ...

  7. Fair coin - Wikipedia

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fair_coin

    In theoretical studies, the assumption that a coin is fair is often made by referring to an ideal coin. John Edmund Kerrich performed experiments in coin flipping and found that a coin made from a wooden disk about the size of a crown and coated on one side with lead landed heads (wooden side up) 679 times out of 1000. [1]

  8. The Hardest Logic Puzzle Ever - Wikipedia

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Hardest_Logic_Puzzle_Ever

    Boolos provides the following clarifications: [1] a single god may be asked more than one question, questions are permitted to depend on the answers to earlier questions, and the nature of Random's response should be thought of as depending on the flip of a fair coin hidden in his brain: if the coin comes down heads, he speaks truly; if tails ...

  9. Heads or Tails (disambiguation) - Wikipedia

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Heads_or_Tails...

    Heads or Tails, or Testa o croce, or Heads I Win, Tails You Lose, an Italian comedy film; Heads or Tails, or Pismo - Glava, a 1983 drama film by Bahrudin Čengić; Heads or Tails, or Pile ou face, a Canadian film; Heads or Tails, or J'en suis!, a Canadian film; Heads or Tails, an American drama