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{{Short description|Concept in gambling, insurance, and finance}} '''Risk of ruin''' is a concept in gambling, insurance, and finance relating to the likelihood of losing all one's inve ...

...discovered it for poker.<ref>{{Cite book |last=Malmuth |first=Mason |title=Gambling Theory and Other Topics |publisher=Two Plus Two Publishing |year=1987 |page ...er |first=Stewart |title=The Doctrine of Chances: Probabilistic Aspects of Gambling |publisher=Springer |year=2010 |isbn=978-3-540-78782-2 |pages=Chapter 7 Gam ...

# Quantum measurement outcomes are personal experiences for the agent gambling on them. Different agents may confer and agree upon the consequences of a m ...terpretation]]" of quantum mechanics. Several authors have deprecated this terminology, claiming that it is historically misleading and obscures differences betwe ...

...kely to happen in the future (or vice versa), often arising in contexts of gambling and misinterpretation of statistics.}} ...erm of a proposition in a [[syllogism]].<ref>{{Cite web |title=Syllogistic Terminology |url=https://philosophy.lander.edu/logic/syll_terms.html |access-date=2024- ...

...first public, legal and government-owned casino was a Venetian four-story gambling house called "[[Ridotto]]", opened in 1638.<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://ente ...f the Solar system, and considered a [[dwarf planet]] by modern astronomic terminology. He cataloged 7,646 stars, demonstrating that most stars are in ''relative ...