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Probability: a questionable science of the uncertain

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  12 October 2022

Leonard M. Wapner
Leonard M. Wapner*
Affiliation:
Division of Mathematical Sciences, El Camino College, Torrance, California 90506 USA e-mail: lwapner@elcamino.edu
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Fate laughs at probabilities.

—Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton

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The Mathematical Gazette , Volume 106 , Issue 567 , November 2022 , pp. 458 - 466
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© The Authors, 2022. Published by Cambridge University Press on behalf of The Mathematical Association

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