coin

The above post led me to write a little WebApp to play with to see the result of coin tosses varying from 10 at a time to 10,000,000 at a time So you can set the number of coin tosses you would like to see the results for and then tell the app to flip the coin that many times.... it will give...

http://money.cnn.com/2006/11/20/news/dollar_coin.reut/index.htm?cnn=yes :rolleyes: Great! Yet another $1 coin we can all not use. How many times are they going to go through this before they give up?

I happened to think about this while watching the CSN cable channel late last night, listening to the snalke oil slaesman try to hawk coins. It was quite entrancing listening to the guys gift of gab. Isn't it ironic or (what's the better word?) that people would buy money...with money? Isn't...

Psychology of belief attachment. Challenge: can you coin a phrase? Education is supposed to, among other things, get the learner to believe some things that are actually true. Some people say that violent conflict is caused by the fact that person X has strongly held beliefs that are...

This is a quote from Leonard Susskind (theoretical physicist): This sounds interesting but what actually is Susskind trying to say? Is he saying that it could not possibly happen (even though he can't prove it)? Surely there is some chance that it could happen? Does anyone have any...

I'm finding it a lot harder to force a coin toss with the new state quarters, as both the head and tails are flatter and harder to feel. Anybody have suggestions, other than making sure I have an older quarter?

http://www.startribune.com/stories/484/4250629.html He's not even dead yet (technically).

I thought Clancie made a very important admission in the thread "A count of JE's hits on Larry King Live": JE does no better than a person flipping a coin? What Clancie is suggesting is even better odds than Andrew Ersby's "Psychic Dice", where we have 6 choices. With a coin, we have a 50%...