A book was released to coincide with the exhibition, containing sections in French, Dutch and English.

Different bookmakers may offer different odds on the same outcome of a given event ; by taking the best odds offered by each bookmaker, a customer can under some circumstances cover all possible outcomes of the event and lock a small risk-free profit, known as a Dutch book.

The use of Bayesian probabilities as the basis of Bayesian inference has been supported by several arguments, such as the Cox axioms, the Dutch book argument, arguments based on decision theory and de Finetti's theorem.

A Dutch book is made when a clever gambler places a set of bets that guarantee a profit, no matter what the outcome is of the bets.

If a bookmaker follows the rules of the Bayesian calculus in the construction of his odds, a Dutch book cannot be made.

However, Ian Hacking noted that traditional Dutch book arguments did not specify Bayesian updating: they left open the possibility that non-Bayesian updating rules could avoid Dutch books.

For example, Hacking writes " And neither the Dutch book argument, nor any other in the personalist arsenal of proofs of the probability axioms, entails the dynamic assumption.

Since English, German and Dutch have many of the same etymological origins, there actually are a great number of words in both languages that are very similar and do have the same meaning ( e. g. word / Wort / woord, book / Buch / boek, house / Haus / huis, water / Wasser / water ...).

This " Disneyfied " image of the gnome was built upon by the illustrated children's book classic The Secret Book of Gnomes ( 1976 ), in the original Dutch Leven en werken van de Kabouter.

The first securely dated book by Dutch printers is from 1471, and the Coster connection is today regarded as a mere legend.

However, the first securely dated book by Dutch printers is from 1471, long after Gutenberg.

However, both the location of the island and its name were quoted in a Dutch book in 1508, which described a 1505 Portuguese expedition led by Francisco de Almeida from the East Indies: " n the twenty-first day of July we saw land, and it was an island lyng six hundred and fifty miles from the Cape, and called Saint Helena, howbeit we could not land there.

The complete saying as reported by an early biographer is a mixture of Latin and Dutch and runs as follows: " In omnibus requiem quaesivi, sed non inveni, nisi in hoexkens ende boexkens ", " I have sought everywhere for peace, but I have found it not save in a little nook and in a little book.

He worked on their large art collection that Karel van Mander had described in his book The Painting-Book ( Middle Dutch: Het Schilder-Boeck ), published in 1604.

Ian Hacking noted that traditional " Dutch book " arguments did not specify Bayesian updating: they left open the possibility that non-Bayesian updating rules could avoid Dutch books.

Hacking wrote " And neither the Dutch book argument, nor any other in the personalist arsenal of proofs of the probability axioms, entails the dynamic assumption.

A Netherlands | Dutch postcode book, dating from when postcodes were introduced to The Netherlands in 1978.

In March, he was attacked by pie-throwing activists at the presentation of his new book ( which became the bestselling book by a Dutch author in the Netherlands in 2002 ).

A 19th century children's book informs its readers that the Dutch people | Dutch were a very industrious race, and that China | Chinese children were very obedient to their parents ( implicitly, relative to the British people | British ).

In his book, " Last Man Out ", H. Robert Charles, an American Marine survivor of the sinking of the USS Houston, writes in depth about a Dutch doctor, Dr. Henri Hekking, a fellow POW who probably saved the lives of many who worked on the " Death Railway ".

He then, repeating the line of argument the English delegation had made two years previously, proposed a military alliance against Spain, promising to repeal the Navigation Act in return for Dutch assistance in the conquest of Spanish America.

This has been defended by successive governments with the argument that such right is so fundamental to Dutch society that it is redundant to explicitly mention it.

The Université Libre de Bruxelles and the Vrije Universiteit Brussel, along with the two Circles of Free Inquiry ( Dutch and French speaking ), defend the freedom of critical thought, lay philosophy and ethics, while rejecting the argument of authority.

The argument lifted from the German paper began by stating that New Guinea fell into the Australian sphere but had been neglected ; although the Portuguese had explored in the 16th century, it was the Dutch from the 17th century " who seemed better satisfied with the country than other European nations had been " but they had overreached themselves and had fallen back towards Java, Sumatra and Celebes.

* Dutch book argument

After Belgian and Dutch newspapers republished the cartoons and politicians defended the publication with the argument of free speech, both denouncing the protests of Muslims and the AEL, the AEL issued statements and posted cartoons on the subject of Holocaust denial on its web pages using the same argument of " free speech " and denouncing official protests against them in return.

With the Astros still leading in the bottom of the ninth, closer Smith allowed a lead-off bunt single to Wally Backman, who appeared to have run out of the first-base line to avoid the tag of first baseman Glenn Davis, but was called safe by umpire Dutch Rennert despite an argument from Houston manager Hal Lanier.

Huygens software is named after the Dutch physicist Christiaan Huygens who is perhaps best known for his argument that light behaves like waves.

At an officers ' supper, Edward took offence at some remarks by Sir William Pelham, marshal of the army, which he thought reflected on the character of his older brother, and an argument with the Dutch host flared up, with Leicester having to mediate between the younger Norreys and his host to prevent a duel.

He was readying a batch of sourdough biscuits for the Dutch oven.

The Dutch Reformed Church, with two steeples and its own school was on Main Street ; ;

( The common misconception that he was Dutch and that his first name was Hendrik stem from Dutch documents of his third voyage.

Dutch Arminianism was originally articulated in the Remonstrance ( 1610 ), a theological statement signed by 45 ministers and submitted to the States-General of the Netherlands.

Jacobus Arminius was a Dutch pastor and theologian in the late 16th and early 17th centuries.

This Synod of Dort was open primarily to Dutch Calvinists ( Arminians were excluded ) with Calvinist representatives from other countries, and in 1618 published a condemnation of Arminius and his followers as heretics.

The fort was partially destroyed by the Dutch in the mid 17th century, rebuilt, then destroyed again in 1776 by an earthquake.

( In the 1970s Ruelle and the Dutch mathematician Floris Takens produced a new model for turbulence, and it was Ruelle who invented the concept of a strange attractor in a dynamical system.

The Slogger Turbo Board was a professionally fitted upgrade whereas the Elektuur modification was described in an article in Dutch Electronics magazine Elektuur and intended for users to perform at home.

The Aster CT-80, an early home / personal computer developed by the small Dutch company MCP ( later renamed to Aster Computers ), was sold in its first incarnation as a kit for hobbyists.

It was the first commercially available Dutch personal / home computer.

Remarkably " Aster " was also the name given to a Dutch Supercomputer much later, in 2002.

The aster was chosen for Dutch schools by the Dutch ministry of education, in a set-up with eight disk-less Asters, and one Aster with high capacity floppy drives all connected by a LAN based on the Asters high-speed serial port hardware, and special cables that permitted that any single computer on the LAN could broadcast to all other computers.

Hence, historically, it is a daughter language of Dutch, and was previously referred to as " Cape Dutch " ( a term also used to refer collectively to the early Cape settlers ) or ' kitchen Dutch ' ( a crude or derogatory term Afrikaans was called in its earlier days ).