The History of Coin Flipping
The coin flip is the simplest and most ancient method of decision making, dating back to the Roman Empire. Known as "navia aut caput" (ship or head), it relied on the imagery of the Janus head on one side of a Roman coin.
In modern times, flipping a coin is still widely used in sports (like the NFL coin toss), in board games, and by individuals to resolve trivial disputes. Because the outcome is binary, it represents the essence of randomness.
Probability & Fairness
A perfectly fair coin has a 50% chance of landing on Heads and a 50% chance of landing on Tails. However, in the physical world, factors like the side it starts on, the air current, and surface roughness can have minute effects on the outcome.
This virtual coin flipper uses a cryptographic pseudo-random number generator, ensuring that every digital flip is statistically random and fair, regardless of the physical factors listed above.