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> Nonetheless, he said, his research offers evidence that Native Americans were doing complex counting and were likely to have been the first humans to contemplate concepts like the law of large numbers, a mathematics concept that describes how a random sample will trend toward an equal distribution over time.

That's a stretch. Most early "gambling" was a way of putting the choice to the gods.

parent kstenerud 6 months ago

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