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Let us define an elementary event as a something that may occur or may not occur. Such an elementary event automatically carries a measure of its existence or a certainty.

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Lerner, V.S. (2003). The IMD Essence and Concepts. In: Variation Principle in Informational Macrodynamics. The Kluwer International Series in Engineering and Computer Science, vol 736. Springer, Boston, MA. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4615-0401-6_1

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