probability
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Futures pricing shows a 63% chance of steady rates and a 34% probability of a rate hike by December, up from less than 1% a month ago.
From Barron's • May 13, 2026
In this case, fidelity refers to the probability that the device gives the correct result when the input is a pure W state.
From Science Daily • May 13, 2026
You develop a feel for probability that you can’t get from doing equations.
From MarketWatch • May 12, 2026
It was enough to earn him an England recall from Thomas Tuchel and, in all probability, a spot in the final 26-man World Cup squad.
From BBC • May 11, 2026
In this they are quite unlike testimonies, which degrade as they pass from ear to ear in an endless game of Chinese whispers; eighteenth-century probability theorists actually devised formulae for calculating this rate of degradation.
From "The Invention of Science" by David Wootton
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