There's a big difference between "you can't bias a coin using weight" and "you can't bias a coin."
https://izbicki.me/blog/how-to-create-an-unfair-coin-and-pro...
There's a big difference between "you can't bias a coin using weight" and "you can't bias a coin."
https://izbicki.me/blog/how-to-create-an-unfair-coin-and-pro...
It still seems to me possible to bias it with weight, based on angular momentum. I think a cavity internally that went from the center of the coin towards one side, with a small weight that moved up and down freely would cause one part of the spin to go faster (when the weight was in the center) than the other part, and would cause a bias if the spin were slow enough not to keep the weight locked at the outside (maybe a spring would be needed? Turns out I don't have a good intuition for what happens when you mix gravity with fast rotation)
Interesting that it seems to contradict the article linked here.
> In Section Three we prove that the angle ψ between M and the normal to the coin stays constant. If this angle is less than 45 ◦ , the coin never turns over. It wobbles around and always comes up the way it started. Magicians and gamblers can carry out such controlled flips which appear visually indistinguishable from normal flips.