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B , B, b [Called ‘bee’]. The 2nd LETTER of the modern Roman ALPHABET as used for English. It descends from the Phoenician symbol bēth (‘house’), which wa… Bayes Theorem , With one posthumous publication on probability, Reverend Thomas Bayes inspired the development of a new approach to statistical inference known as Ba… Bough , bough †shoulder; †(Sc.) limb; limb of a tree. OE. bōg, bōh = MLG. bōch, būch (LG. boog), MDu. boech (Du. boeg), shoulders, bows of a ship, OHG. buog… dweeb , dweeb / dwēb/ • n. inf. a boring, studious, or socially inept person. DERIVATIVES: dweeb·ish adj. dweeb·y adj.
dweeb •Antibes, Beeb, Delibes, dweeb,… Thomas Bayes , Thomas Bayes (1702–1761) was the eldest son of the Reverend Joshua Bayes, one of the first nonconformist ministers to be publicly ordained in England… Abraham De Moivre , Moivre, Abraham De
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probability.
De Moivre was one of the many gifted Protestants who emigrated from France to England following th…
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