This post has me wondering.
Without question, everything that goes into a coin flip is physical and measurable - force, air currents, uneven weight of the sides, etc. In theory, it could all be modeled. Could we do it in practice? Is it foreseeable that we would ever be able to measure all of the factors precisely enough to predict the coin with 95% accuracy or greater? Or, in practice, are coin tosses unpredictable enough to be called random?
I tried Googling this and got either gibberish or what I assumed to be gibberish.
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Originally Posted by jt512 (Post 12088738)A coin toss is deterministic.
Without question, everything that goes into a coin flip is physical and measurable - force, air currents, uneven weight of the sides, etc. In theory, it could all be modeled. Could we do it in practice? Is it foreseeable that we would ever be able to measure all of the factors precisely enough to predict the coin with 95% accuracy or greater? Or, in practice, are coin tosses unpredictable enough to be called random?
I tried Googling this and got either gibberish or what I assumed to be gibberish.
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