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The first ideas of modern probability came (around the XVII century) from gambling, and we too will start from there. The simplest example is that of a flipped coin with two possible outcomes: head (H) and tail (T). When we say that the coin is fair we just mean that there is no reason to surmise a bias in favor of one of these two results.
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Cufaro Petroni, N. (2020). Probability Spaces. In: Probability and Stochastic Processes for Physicists. UNITEXT for Physics. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-48408-8_1
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