Quadibloc <jsavard@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote in news:52758bdb-6d3e-4677-8045-
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> On Apr 14, 2:53 pm, The Starmaker <starma...@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote:
>
>> You people are insane! What are you trying to say, the Mafia
>> discovered Mathematics?
>
> No, the Cosa Nostra did not play an im****tant part in the discovery of
> mathematics.
>
> But the behavior of dice that *aren't* loaded will follow a certain
> pattern - one that mathematics has made clear - whether or not the
> people playing at dice know of this.
>
> The name "Girolamo Cardano" might bear Googling in this connection.
> (Oh, dear. That's an *Italian* name, isn't it?)
As it happens, gamblin' motivate the early developments in
combinatorics, and stacking decks and loading dice came along later.
But you knew that. ;)
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