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- 93109395 contributor B6972608.
- 93109395 contributor B6972609.
- 93109395 created "1740.".
- 93109395 date "1740".
- 93109395 date "1740.".
- 93109395 dateCopyrighted "1740.".
- 93109395 description "(from t.p.) The solutions of several abstruse and important problems -- The doctrine of combinations and permutations clearly deduced -- A new and comprehensive problem of great use in discovering the advantage or loss in lotteries, raffles, &c. -- A curious and extensive problem on the duration of play -- Problems for determining the probability of winning at bowls, coits, cards, &c. -- A problem for finding the trials wherein it may be undertaken that a proposed event shall happen or fail a given number of times -- A problem to find the chance for a given number of points on a given number of dice -- Full and clear investigations of two problems added at the end of Mr. De Moivre's last edition, one of them allowed by that great man to be the most useful on the subject, but their demonstrations there omitted -- Two new methods for summing of series.".
- 93109395 description "BLC, v. 303, p. 211".
- 93109395 extent "[4], iv, 85, [3] p. (the first leaf and last 3 pages blank) ;".
- 93109395 isReferencedBy "BLC, v. 303, p. 211".
- 93109395 issued "1740".
- 93109395 issued "1740.".
- 93109395 language "eng".
- 93109395 publisher "[London] : Printed by Edward Cave ...,".
- 93109395 subject "Games of chance (Mathematics) Early works to 1800.".
- 93109395 subject "Probabilities Early works to 1800.".
- 93109395 subject "QA273 .S61 1740".
- 93109395 tableOfContents "(from t.p.) The solutions of several abstruse and important problems -- The doctrine of combinations and permutations clearly deduced -- A new and comprehensive problem of great use in discovering the advantage or loss in lotteries, raffles, &c. -- A curious and extensive problem on the duration of play -- Problems for determining the probability of winning at bowls, coits, cards, &c. -- A problem for finding the trials wherein it may be undertaken that a proposed event shall happen or fail a given number of times -- A problem to find the chance for a given number of points on a given number of dice -- Full and clear investigations of two problems added at the end of Mr. De Moivre's last edition, one of them allowed by that great man to be the most useful on the subject, but their demonstrations there omitted -- Two new methods for summing of series.".
- 93109395 title "The nature and laws of chance ... : illustrated with a great variety of examples / by Thomas Simpson ...".
- 93109395 type "text".