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...
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relying on any trusted third party, is called the coin flipping problem in cryptography. Quantum coin flipping uses the principles of quantum mechanics to encrypt...
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Gambler's ruin (section Fair coin flipping)
Consider a coin-flipping game with two players where each player has a 50% chance of winning with each flip of the coin. After each flip of the coin the loser...
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often made by referring to an ideal coin. John Edmund Kerrich performed experiments in coin flipping and found that a coin made from a wooden disk about the...
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opposite of the critical region specified by the test. For example, if flipping a coin, testing whether it is biased towards heads is a one-tailed test, and...
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Quantum cryptography (section Quantum coin flipping)
relativistic protocols for coin flipping and bit-commitment have been shown by Kent. Unlike quantum key distribution, quantum coin flipping is a protocol that...
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Bernoulli process (redirect from Coin-flipping measure)
independent. Prosaically, a Bernoulli process is a repeated coin flipping, possibly with an unfair coin (but with consistent unfairness). Every variable Xi in...
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Bernoulli trial (category Coin flipping)
include: Flipping a coin. In this context, obverse ("heads") conventionally denotes success and reverse ("tails") denotes failure. A fair coin has the...
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to affect only one flip in a lifetime of flipping; also it is always possible for an unfair (or "biased") coin to happen to turn up exactly 10 heads in...
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playing a game of coin flipping. Suppose Xn is the gambler's fortune after n tosses of a fair coin, such that the gambler wins $1 if the coin toss outcome...
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