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  2. Coin flips don’t appear to have 50/50 odds after all - Engadget

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    A global team of researchers investigating the statistical and physical nuances of coin tosses worldwide concluded (via Phys.org) that a coin is 50.8% likely to land on the same side it started on ...

  3. Coin flipping - Wikipedia

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    Tossing a coin. 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, heads or tails, sometimes used to resolve a dispute between two parties. It is a form of sortition which inherently has two possible ...

  4. Quantum coin flipping - Wikipedia

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    Quantum coin flipping uses the principles of quantum mechanics to encrypt messages for secure communication. It is a cryptographic primitive which can be used to construct more complex and useful cryptographic protocols, [2] e.g. Quantum Byzantine agreement .

  5. Fair coin - Wikipedia

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    Fair coin. A fair coin, when tossed, should have an equal chance of landing either side up. In probability theory and statistics, a sequence of independent Bernoulli trials with probability 1/2 of success on each trial is metaphorically called a fair coin. One for which the probability is not 1/2 is called a biased or unfair coin.

  6. PayPal introduces its own stablecoin that's pegged to the US ...

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    The company also obtained a BitLicense, or a business license of virtual currency activities, from the NYDFS in June 2022. Users can buy and sell PayPal USD coins for $1 each.

  7. Coin rotation paradox - Wikipedia

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    The outer coin makes two rotations rolling once around the inner coin. The path of a single point on the edge of the moving coin is a cardioid.. The coin rotation paradox is the counter-intuitive math problem that, when one coin is rolled around the rim of another coin of equal size, the moving coin completes not one but two full rotations after going all the way around the stationary coin ...

  8. Glossary of video game terms - Wikipedia

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    asset flipping The practice of creating a game using 'free' art and audio assets, either from an online marketplace or the default stock of assets included with many game engines. Asset-flips are often of very poor quality designed to catch onto a currently popular theme to turn a quick profit. It mimics the practice of flipping in real estate ...

  9. John Edmund Kerrich - Wikipedia

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    John Kerrich was born in Norfolk, England [2] and grew up in South Africa. He was educated there and in the UK (First class Honours in Mathematics & MSc Astronomy, University of the Witwatersrand; Diploma in Actuarial Mathematics, University of Edinburgh ). He was appointed lecturer in mathematics in 1929, and senior lecturer six years later.