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  2. 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.

  3. Quantum coin flipping - Wikipedia

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    [5] [6] Consider the case where each player knows the preferred bit of the other. A coin flipping problem which makes this additional assumption constitutes the weaker variant thereof called weak coin flipping (WCF). In the case of classical channels this extra assumption yields no improvement.

  4. 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.

  5. Martingale (betting system) - Wikipedia

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    In fact, while the chance of losing 6 times in a row in 6 plays is a relatively low 1.8% on a single-zero wheel, the probability of losing 6 times in a row (i.e. encountering a streak of 6 losses) at some point during a string of 200 plays is approximately 84%. Even if the gambler can tolerate betting ~1,000 times their original bet, a streak ...

  6. Coin flipping - Wikipedia

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    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]

  7. Gordon Ingram - Wikipedia

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    He designed the Ingram Model 6 in 1949 and later went on to design and manufacture the MAC-10 and MAC-11. Ingram's role in the creation of the MAC-10 earned him the moniker "father of the machine pistol". [3] [4] His design accomplishments spanned over forty years and left behind several notable designs. His Ranchero and Durango series of ...

  8. Todd McShay Updates His Draft Prediction For Mac Jones - AOL

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    The post Todd McShay Updates His Draft Prediction For Mac Jones appeared first on The Spun. We now have less than a month until the 2021 NFL Draft begins, and the drama really starts when you get ...

  9. Martingale (probability theory) - Wikipedia

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    Originally, martingale referred to a class of betting strategies that was popular in 18th-century France. [1] [2] The simplest of these strategies was designed for a game in which the gambler wins their stake if a coin comes up heads and loses it if the coin comes up tails.