Coin Toss Program

Math may prove a pretty difficult subject in school, but only a few realize that a large variety of computer programs you’re running are actually based on math operations. One particular branch is probability, and in case you missed one too many classes, Coin Toss Program can surely teach you a thing or two.

Just so you can practice from anywhere there’s a computer, the application doesn’t need to be installed, and can flawlessly run even from a USB flash drive. The only thing you need to make sure is whether or not the computer you run it on is fitted with Java Runtime Environment. What’s more, the target PC is not put at risk, since registries are not a dependency.

The main window consists of a large empty graph, with several value fields that need to be filled in accordingly for the simulation to work. There are some playback options through which you put the process in motion, go through step by step, or reset to default.

You only get to write down two values, unlike the name might trick you into believing. As such, you need to specify the number of coins to flip, as well as the probability factor, letting the application process and reveal the number of heads, squared, head variances, and number of trials.

As the simulation goes, the graph starts to fill in accordingly, and so do the last mentioned values. You need to manually pause or stop the simulation, otherwise it continues to generate random strings of probability. You can save picture snapshots of the graph itself, and even copy all value data fields obtained through the simulation to be used in other projects.

All things considered, we can say that Coin Toss Program is not quite what you’d expect from the name, but rather helps you study that branch of math that is responsible for determining the probability of a coin flipping and falling the way you hope it does. However, controls feel a bit rough around the edges, but once you get the hang of it, valuable data and graphs can be obtained and easily exported.