Friday, October 13, 2006

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Betting games have been played since the earliest time in virtually all cultures. In ancient Egypt, Greece, and Rome, people used various devices to bet on outcome of random events. Although the Greeks had a profound understanding of mathematics, they had no concept of probability, and assumed that the outcome of chance was due to the will of the gods. It was not until many centuries later that French mathematicians Pierre de Fermat and Blaise Pascal explored the mathematics of gambling, leading to the formulation of Pascals theory of probability in1654.
The first recorded betting games were played with marked disks or bones ( the forerunners of dice ) , and spinning wheels or shields. Playing cards only came later , after the invention of paper. These three types of devices provided the basic from which modern casino have evolved.
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