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What is the correct distribution for simulating the outcome of a single coin?

What is the correct distribution for simulating the outcome of a single coin? What kind of distribution is it when all values have the same probability of occurring? binomial? normal? continuous uniform? discrete uniform? or triangular?

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1. Binomial. Uniform. Whether it is continuous or discrete depends upon whether the data items come from a continuous spectrum (the real numbers), or from the integers alone.