coin flipping
Sign in to saveAlso known as cointoss, coin tossing, coin toss, coin flip, coin-flip, coin-fliping, coin-tossing, coin-toss
practice of throwing a coin in the air to choose between two alternatives
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- Instance of
- game of chance
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- Has use
- dispute resolution
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- Coin flipping
- topic's main category
- Category:Coin flipping
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- possibility
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Encyclopedic overview
Tossing a coin, here a German €1 Coin flipping, coin tossing, or heads or tails involves using the thumb to launch a coin in the air and then checking which side is showing once it has landed, in order to randomly choose between two alternatives. It is a form of sortition which inherently has two possible outcomes. Used in such a fashion, the coin serves as a binary lot.
History and nomenclature
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “coin flipping” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.