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A coin flip is one of the simplest yet most effective methods to make quick decisions or settle disputes. Known for its fairness and randomness, the act of flipping a coin is widely used in various ...

Our Top 10 Biggest Local Sports Moments of 2025 continues! Sitting at No. 2 is the mind-blowing Amarillo High coin flip. We were all on the rollercoaster watching the ...

For NFL referees, it’s not enough to toss the coin. They have to flip the coin. A new procedure implemented by the NFL this offseason mandates that on every coin flip before games and before overtime, ...

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A coin flip is considered by many to be the perfect 50/50 random event, even though — being an event subject to Newtonian physics — the results are in fact anything but random. But that’s okay, ...

For decades, flipping a coin has symbolized perfect randomness—a fair, 50/50 chance between heads and tails. But research suggests that this age-old belief might not be as foolproof as we thought. A ...

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Each month, the NBER Digest summarizes several recent NBER working papers. These papers have not been peer-reviewed, but are circulated by their authors for comment ...

Coin flips may seem random, but the outcome is governed by predetermined forces like gravity and the strength of your finger flick. So physics formulas could be used to calculate how a coin will land.