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Babbage offers solutions to common problems in games of chance using algebraic reasoning.

Subject: Mathematics

Reference number
AP/9/3
Earliest possible date
25 September 1818
Physical description
Ink on paper
Page extent
7 pages
Format
Manuscript

Creator name

Charles Babbage

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Charles Babbage, Unpublished paper, 'On the solution of some problems relating to games of chance' by Charles Babbage, 25 September 1818, AP/9/3, The Royal Society Archives, London, https://makingscience.royalsociety.org/items/ap_9_3/unpublished-paper-on-the-solution-of-some-problems-relating-to-games-of-chance-by-charles-babbage, accessed on 21 April 2026

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