Idiom
fair coin
Meaning
A sequence of independent Bernoulli trials (a Bernoulli process) with probability 1/2 of success on each trial.
Meaning adapted from Wiktionary, available under CC BY-SA 4.0.
Examples
“If you flip a fair coin, you have a fifty percent chance of heads.”
“To ensure the game is unbiased, we must use a fair coin for the opening toss.”
“Assuming the experiment relies on a fair coin, the theoretical probability of observing ten consecutive heads remains extremely low.”
Examples
simple
“If you flip a fair coin, you have a fifty percent chance of heads.”
contextual
“To ensure the game is unbiased, we must use a fair coin for the opening toss.”
complex
“Assuming the experiment relies on a fair coin, the theoretical probability of observing ten consecutive heads remains extremely low.”
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