The word probability has been used in a variety of ways since it was first coined in relation to games of chance. There have been debates among the proponents of different interpretations of probability during the twentieth century which have not been resolved. These debates occurred in several academic communities:
... it was adopted by the British Parliament in 1982 (though as part of the Canada Act (UK) 1982 it only became law in Canada, not the United Kingdom).
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