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There are many ways of introducing the concept of probability in classical, i.e. deterministic physics. This work is concerned with one approach, known as “the method of arbitrary functions.” To illustrate it consider the following example:
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Engel, E.M.R.A. (1992). Introduction. In: A Road to Randomness in Physical Systems. Lecture Notes in Statistics, vol 71. Springer, New York, NY. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4419-8684-9_1
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