ELI5: Explain Like I'm 5

Coin orientation

Imagine that you have a pile of coins in front of you, all jumbled together. Now, if you were to grab one of those coins and hold it up, you'd notice that it has two different sides: one with a design on it, and one that looks plain.

The way in which a coin is facing - with the design side up or the plain side up - is called its "orientation". When we talk about coin orientation, we're talking about how all the coins in the pile are facing, and whether they're all facing the same way or not.

For example, let's say you have a pile of 10 coins and 9 of them are facing heads up (with the design side showing), but one of them is facing tails up (with the plain side showing). In this case, we could say that most of the coins are in the "heads up" orientation, but there is one that is in a different orientation - the "tails up" orientation.

Coin orientation can be important in certain situations, like when you're counting or sorting coins. If you're trying to count 10 coins and they're all facing different directions, it might be harder to figure out how many there are than if they were all facing the same way.

Overall, coin orientation is just a way of describing how the coins in a pile are facing, and whether they're all facing the same way or different ways.