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After Blaise Pascal encouraged him to do so, Huygens wrote the first book on probability theory, De ratiociniis in ludo aleae (" On Reasoning in Games of Chance "), which he had published at 5: 56 pm on April 10, 1657.
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After a pause, during which he studied Scotty's face as if Scotty were not there and could not study him too, Mr. McKinley would ask the same questions he had asked downstairs.
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