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Classical definition of probability

The classical definition of probability or classical interpretation of probability is identified with the works of Jacob Bernoulli and Pierre-Simon Laplace: The probability of an event is the ratio of the number of cases favorable to it, to the number of all cases possible when nothing leads us to expect that any one of these cases should occur more than any other, which renders them, for us, equally possible.

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