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and he concluded that there were probably a number of people
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who had the idea, but they didn't publish it,
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and it never became part of the established literature
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partly because, he said, throughout human history,
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there has been a love of gambling and probability theory
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is extremely useful if you are a gambler.
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Hacking believes that there were many gambling theorists
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who invented probability theory at various times in history
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but never wrote it down and kept it as a secret.
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He gives an example--I like to--
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he gives an example from a book that--
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or it's a collection--