 | English literature - 1803 - 752 pages
...«vent, according to Da Moivre and Simpfori, is greater or lefs according to the number of chances by which it may happen, compared with the whole number...fail. " As, fuppofing it were required to exprefs the probabilitv of throwing either an ace or duce at the firft throw with a lingle diej then there being... | |
 | Francis Lieber, Edward Wigglesworth - Encyclopedias and dictionaries - 1832 - 656 pages
...regard to tbeshappening or failing; and it is greater or It* according to the number of chances bv which it may happen, compared with the whole number of chances by which it nai either happen or fail. The calculation < ; chances in games of hazard, and the theon of insurance,... | |
 | Edmond Hoyle - Games - 1835 - 522 pages
...us. The probability of an event may be said to be more or less, according to the number of chances by which it may happen, compared with the whole number...of chances by which it may either happen or fail. If we, therefore, constitute a fraction, whereof the numerator be the number of chances whereby an... | |
 | Francis Lieber, Edward Wigglesworth - Encyclopedias and dictionaries - 1835 - 618 pages
...it is greater or less according to the number oi chances by which it may happen, cornimred with tho. whole number of chances by which it may either happen or fail. The calculation of chances in games of hazard, and the theory of insurance, whether of property or... | |
 | Edmond Hoyle - Card games - 1847 - 522 pages
...us. The probability of an event may be said to be more or less, according to the number of chances by which it may happen, compared with the whole number...of chances by which it may either happen or fail. If we, therefore, constitute a fraction, whereof the numerator be the number of chances whereby an... | |
 | William Brisbane Dick - Card games - 1864 - 548 pages
...us. The probability of an event may be said to be more or less, according to the number of chances by which it may happen, compared with the whole number...of chances by which it may either happen or fail. If we, therefore, constitute a fraction, whereof the numerator bp the number of chances whereby an... | |
 | Roberto Torretti - Science - 1990 - 396 pages
...of his book: 1 . The probability of an Event is greater or less, according to the number of Chances by which it may happen, compared with the whole number...of Chances by which it may either happen or fail. 2. Wherefore, if we constitute a Fraction whereof the Numerator be the number of Chances whereby an... | |
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The probability of an event may be said to be more or less, according to the number of chances by which it may happen, compared with the whole number of chances by which it may either happen or fail. 