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Imagine a usual coin tossing with two possible outcomes ω = ‘head’ or ‘tail’ each of them having the probability 1/2. In another example of a dice tossing with six possible equiprobable outcomes ω = 1,...,6; what is the probability of the event {ω is even}? The answer is of course 1/2 (why?).
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Rozanov, Y.A. (1995). Introductory Probability Theory. In: Probability Theory, Random Processes and Mathematical Statistics. Mathematics and Its Applications, vol 344. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-011-0449-4_1
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