Simulating the Flip of a Coin

If you ever needed to simulate the flipping of a coin, or some other event in which you expect to receive a boolean result, this is how to do it.

When we last looked at generating random numbers, we looked at creating random numbers in a range. We'll use that code as a base. See below.
function coinFlip()
{
    var max = 1;
    var min = 0;
    var rndNum;

    rndNum = min + Math.floor(Math.random() * ((max - min) + 1));
    return ((rndNum == 0 ? true : false));
}

Of course, we can simplify the above code by removing the generic elements:
function coinFlip()
{
    return ((Math.floor(Math.random() * 2) == 0 ? true : false));
}

In the above code we generate our random number to get a 0 or 1, and then use a ternary operator to return true or false.