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  2. Sample space - Wikipedia

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    In probability theory, the sample space (also called sample description space, [1] possibility space, [2] or outcome space [3]) of an experiment or random trial is the set of all possible outcomes or results of that experiment. [4] A sample space is usually denoted using set notation, and the possible ordered outcomes, or sample points, [5] are ...

  3. Probability space - Wikipedia

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    A probability space is a mathematical triplet that presents a model for a particular class of real-world situations. As with other models, its author ultimately defines which elements , , and will contain. The sample space is the set of all possible outcomes. An outcome is the result of a single execution of the model.

  4. Outcome (probability) - Wikipedia

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    v. t. e. In probability theory, an outcome is a possible result of an experiment or trial. [1] Each possible outcome of a particular experiment is unique, and different outcomes are mutually exclusive (only one outcome will occur on each trial of the experiment). All of the possible outcomes of an experiment form the elements of a sample space.

  5. Phrases from The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy - Wikipedia

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    In the puzzle the question is unknown, but the answer is already known to be 42. This is similar to the book where the "Answer to the Ultimate Question of Life, the Universe, and Everything" is known but not the question. The puzzle first appeared in The Illustrated Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy. It was later incorporated into the covers of ...

  6. Boy or girl paradox - Wikipedia

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    Boy or girl paradox. The Boy or Girl paradox surrounds a set of questions in probability theory, which are also known as The Two Child Problem, [1] Mr. Smith's Children [2] and the Mrs. Smith Problem. The initial formulation of the question dates back to at least 1959, when Martin Gardner featured it in his October 1959 "Mathematical Games ...

  7. Small-bias sample space - Wikipedia

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    Small-bias sample space. In theoretical computer science, a small-bias sample space (also known as -biased sample space, -biased generator, or small-bias probability space) is a probability distribution that fools parity functions . In other words, no parity function can distinguish between a small-bias sample space and the uniform distribution ...

  8. Milky Way - Wikipedia

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    Although special relativity states that there is no "preferred" inertial frame of reference in space with which to compare the Milky Way, the Milky Way does have a velocity with respect to cosmological frames of reference. One such frame of reference is the Hubble flow, the apparent motions of galaxy clusters due to the expansion of space.

  9. Visual space - Wikipedia

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    Visual space is the experience of space by an aware observer. It is the subjective counterpart of the space of physical objects. There is a long history in philosophy, and later psychology of writings describing visual space, and its relationship to the space of physical objects. A partial list would include René Descartes, Immanuel Kant ...