Article 43TT2 Video: why flipping a coin is completely deterministic

Video: why flipping a coin is completely deterministic

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Mark Frauenfelder
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If you knew what all the initial conditions were before you flipped a coin, you could predict with 100% accuracy whether it would land heads or tails. In this video the Action Lab Man conducts a number of interesting demonstrations to show the difference between chaos and randomness. In short, random events are unpredictable, and chaotic events seem random because we can't calculate them.

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