Sentences with phrase «number of coin tossings»

While mathematics can not decide the answer in any single case, it can formulate laws of probability according to which we can make fairly accurate predictions regarding the outcome of a large number of coin tossings.

Adding new sites with the appropriate precautions taken with respect to their location increases the number of data points, in essence paying for the additional noise which they introduce into the trends — in the same way that increasing the number of coin tosses leads to a heads to tosses ratio closer to one half.

Not exact matches

I want to know if in the final round of RCV if say two remaining candidates both get exactly the same number of votes after the rest of the candidates are eliminated if there is a better way than a coin toss to decide?

DeRosa used a computer to simulate what might happen if 1,000 people each tossed a coin 10,000 times, assuming a certain outcome — such as tails — was equivalent to a win and the number of times a particular person won the toss was random.

We will determine whether studies used computer - generated random numbers, table of random numbers, drawing lots or envelopes, coin tossing, shuffling cards, or throwing dice.