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jasirs94 at Nov 20, 2016 08:52 PM

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utter irregularity is of all arrangements the most regular, and is thus itself discoverable by induction. This will best appear th[r]ough an illustrative instance.

Suppose we wished to test a die to see whether the six sides turned up with substantially equal frequencies. It would be best at the same time to test the dice-box and one's manner of throwing. My dice-boxes, instead of having the standard phimode shape of a one-sided hyperboloid of revolution, are simple cylinders of leather, which I somewhat suspect I would therefore throw the die 1441 times, keeping 36 tallies, each of two successive throws, in order to show whether one throw tended to influence the next. According to [the] doctrine of

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