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  2. Sleeping Beauty problem - Wikipedia

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    Imagine tossing a coin, if the coin comes up heads, a green ball is placed into a box; if, instead, the coin comes up tails, two red balls are placed into a box. We repeat this procedure a large number of times until the box is full of balls of both colours. A single ball is then drawn from the box.

  3. 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 ...

  4. Coin flipping - Wikipedia

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    The coin toss in cricket is more important than in other games because in many situations it can lead a team winning or losing the game. Factors such as pitch conditions, weather and the time of day are considered by the team captain who wins the toss. Now there are websites such as flip a coin online which domestic sports team use to toss the ...

  5. Quantum coin flipping - Wikipedia

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    In this paper, the two introduced the idea of using quantum mechanics to enhance previous cryptographic protocols such as coin flipping. [3] Since then, many researchers have applied quantum mechanics to cryptography as they have proven theoretically to be more secure than classical cryptography, however, demonstrating these protocols in ...

  6. Quantum walk - Wikipedia

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    Quantum walks are quantum analogs of classical random walks.In contrast to the classical random walk, where the walker occupies definite states and the randomness arises due to stochastic transitions between states, in quantum walks randomness arises through (1) quantum superposition of states, (2) non-random, reversible unitary evolution and (3) collapse of the wave function due to state ...

  7. St. Petersburg paradox - Wikipedia

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    The St. Petersburg paradox or St. Petersburg lottery [1] is a paradox involving the game of flipping a coin where the expected payoff of the lottery game is infinite but nevertheless seems to be worth only a very small amount to the participants. The St. Petersburg paradox is a situation where a naïve decision criterion that takes only the ...

  8. Game of the Day: Solitaire - Classic Flip 3

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    Solitaire: Classic Flip 3 is a challenging version of this intelligent game in which three cards are played at a time. Build up the same suit counting up from Ace to King until each pile.

  9. Category:Coin flipping - Wikipedia

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