33.1 Random Phenomena and the Birth of Probability
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33.1.2 Random Events
Core idea
"Rolling an even number" is just a description of an outcome, and it picks out a chunk of what's in the bag, that chunk being the event A
Module goal. Start from random phenomena, where "you can't be sure of the outcome," and build up probability as a number that measures "how likely" something is
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