In this treatise, he gives the number of favourable cases
for each event when two dice are thrown © NCERT
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Galileo (1564-1642) gave casual remarks concerning the correct evaluation
of chance in a game of three dice Galileo analysed that when three dice are
thrown, the sum of the number that appear is more likely to be 10 than the sum 9,
because the number of cases favourable to 10 are more than the number of
cases for the appearance of number 9 Apart from these early contributions, it is generally acknowledged that the
true origin of the science of probability lies in the correspondence between two
great men of the seventeenth century, Pascal (1623-1662) and Pierre de Fermat
(1601-1665)