Choice and Chance: An Elementary Treatise on Permutations, Combinations, and Probability, with 640 Exercises |
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| Title | Choice and Chance: An Elementary Treatise on Permutations, Combinations, and Probability, with 640 Exercises [Cambridge mathematical series] |
| Author | William Allen Whitworth |
| Edition | 4 |
| Publisher | Deighton, Bell, 1886 |
| Original from | the University of Michigan |
| Digitized | 11 Aug 2006 |
| Length | 299 pages |
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