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Probability is a number between 0 and 1, where, roughly speaking, 0 indicates impossibility and 1 indicates certainty. Example two cards are chosen at random without replacement from a wellshu ed pack. I struggled with this for some time, because there is no doubt in my mind that jaynes wanted this book nished. Anyone can gain an appreciation of the need for probability in the first pages. Probability makes extensive use of set operations, so let us introduce at the outset the relevant notation and terminology.
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