A treatise on gambling
named liber de Ludo Alcae, by Geronimo Carden (1501-1576) was published
posthumously in 1663 In this treatise, he gives the number of favourable cases
for each event when two dice are thrown © NCERT
not to be republished
PROBABILITY      587
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