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Probability

What We Can Learn From Gambling

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The objects we shall investigate in our book may be quite different. In most cases, however, we shall treat systems consisting of very many subsystems of the same kind or of very few kinds. In this chapter we deal with the subsystems and define a few simple relations.

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Haken, H. (1977). Probability. In: Synergetics. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-96363-6_2

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