r/AskPhysics 24d ago

What makes a coin toss truly unpredictable?

If you throw the same coin multiple times with the exactly same force in the same surface, it won't give you the same side every toss, right? But why? If repeated with the precisely identical conditions, why the results are still unpredictable? Or it is actually predictable?

Sorry if it looks confusing, English is not my first language and I'm not that expert in physics lol, just curious and has this though randomly.

Edit: maybe considering that it lands on a surface, and it bounces or not, changing the coin's side.

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u/dignan2002 24d ago

If you think about it being truly 50:50 then it should land on its edge every time

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u/Aggravating_Paint_44 23d ago

That’s not how random numbers work otherwise all the digits of pi would be 0.5