Definition

Probability

Also known as: chance, likelihood

A number between 0 and 1 that measures how likely an event is to happen. 0 means impossible, 1 means certain, and 0.5 (or 50%) means equally likely either way — like a single fair coin landing on heads. It can be read as a long-run frequency: flip a fair coin many times and roughly half the tosses come up heads.


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