33.1.3 Frequency: Try a Thousand Times and Watch the Ratio
33.1 Random Phenomena and the Birth of Probability
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33.1.3 Frequency: Try a Thousand Times and Watch the Ratio
Core idea
Flip a coin a thousand times and see what share comes up heads, and that measured share is the frequency f = m/n, which steadies as the count grows
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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