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Imogene O. Boyett
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"lacking a definite purpose" was the meaning of this phrase in the 17th century. The next two hundred years brought about the development of a mathematical sense.

In the context of a very technical definition, it was used to refer to something that was "governed by or involving equal chances for each of the actual or hypothetical members of a population; also, produced or obtained by such a process and therefore unpredictable in detail."


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