Paper, 'Questions of chance' by Mr [Francis] Robartes
Reference number: CLP/1/4
Date: 1691
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.
- Reference number
- CLP/1/4
- Earliest possible date
- 1691
- Physical description
- Ink on paper
- Page extent
- 3 pages
- Format
- Manuscript
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Francis Robartes, Paper, 'Questions of chance' by Mr [Francis] Robartes, 1691, CLP/1/4, The Royal Society Archives, London, https://makingscience.royalsociety.org/items/clp_1_4/paper-questions-of-chance-by-mr-francis-robartes, accessed on 24 May 2025
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Classified papers: volume 1 concerning 'Arithmetick, Algebra, Geometry, Trigonometry'
1669-1731 Reference number: CLP/1
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Dates: 1592 - 1741
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