Games of chance according to Leibniz (Q1194113)

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    Games of chance according to Leibniz
    scientific article; zbMATH DE number 63838

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      Games of chance according to Leibniz (English)
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      27 September 1992
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      The author publishes Leibniz's MSS ``Du jeu du quinquenove'' (1678), ``Le jeu du solitaire'' (ca. 1678), and ``Jeu des productions'' (1698, an invented game). He points out several mistakes made by Leibniz (e.g., enumeration of combinations rather than permutations) and emphasizes Leibniz's approach to games of change which enable to ``perfectionner l'art d'inventer''. He does not mention that Leibniz 1) made a similar statement in his ``Neue Abhandlungen über den menschlichen Verstand'' or 2) effectively used the ``classical'' definition of probability and offered a definition of the ratio of probabilities. I do not understand the author's diagrams and do not know what he means by stating that Leibniz's MSS ``se trouvent\dots sous la cote'' of Brouillon LH XXXV.
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      games of chance
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      history of probability
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