coin toss
coin flip , auch: coin throw

Did any of us really want to know how our cosmic coin tosses had landed?

Some coin tosses lasted longer than Eagles' drives this season.

Coin tosses are also used to decide which team has the pick of going first or second in a penalty shoot-out.

Sam Stewart is the fifth to clear the Coin Toss on his first attempt.

A series of two fair coin tosses has an entropy of two bits.

Before the lottery, five tie-breaking coin tosses were held to determine the other drafting positions that ended in deadlocks.

Coin Toss for Quarterbacks That getting on track will begin with the quarterbacks.

For example, the process which counts the number of heads in a series of coin tosses has a drift rate of 1/2 per toss.

Before the introduction of the penalty shoot-out, coin tosses were occasionally needed to decide the outcome of tied matches.

If new situations occurred (i.e. a team quickly rises in the standings making another tie possible) more coin tosses occurred.

If there is a tie between the pilots, a coin toss decides who chooses (the coin tosses are shown in the 2nd season).

Coin Toss(2012) an American independent film set in Chicago and Directed by Satya Kharkar.

'Then say you're trying to prove that coin tosses are more likely to turn up heads the higher the altitude you make the toss at -' 'What?'

Michael Ortiz became the second person to cross the Coin Toss on his first attempt (William Davis, Jr was the first).

Of course, coin tosses have a particular resonance in Florida, where one of the closest presidential elections in history kept the nation waiting for a president-elect for 36 days.

Browns Win Coin Toss Cleveland won the coin toss with Atlanta for the seventh pick in the draft.

The Not So Random Coin Toss (Brief blurb about Persi Diaconis' work, with a photograph of the coin-tossing machine)

Dynamical Bias in the Coin Toss (by Persi Diaconis, Susan Holmes, and Richard Montgomery; very detailed)

In computational complexity theory, an Arthur-Merlin protocol is an interactive proof system in which the verifier's coin tosses are constrained to be public (i.e. known to the prover too).

In 1960, he was invited by Edward F. Moore to work at Bell Labs, where Rabin introduced probabilistic automata that employ coin tosses in order to decide which state transitions to take.

(AP) Coin Toss No-Shows Joe Montana represented 24 of 26 winners of the Super Bowl most-valuable-player award at the coin toss.

A similar procedure breaks ties for the purposes of seeding in the NFL Draft; these coin tosses are more common, since the tie-breaking procedure for the draft is much less elaborate than the one used for playoff seeding.