practice of throwing a coin in the air to choose between two alternatives
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
Discovered by embedding cosine similarity (sentence-transformers MiniLM, 384-dim).