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  <dc:title>Paper, 'Questions of chance' by Mr [Francis] Robartes</dc:title>
  <dc:description>Robartes muses on two problems:

1: A gamester tries his fortune at a lottery book consisting of seven prizes and 43 blank. How many times he will undertake to pick a prize, or what is the least number the gamester can demand whilst still winning?

2: Two gamesters A and B case dice as follows, A rolls it once and B rolls it twice for every roll A makes. What are the odds that one will roll the chance?

Subject: Mathematics

Read to the Royal Society on 9 March 1691.</dc:description>
  <dc:date>[1691]</dc:date>
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