equiprobable
- adjective
- /ˌiːkwɪˈprɒbəbəl/
- Specialized
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equiprobable
- During the election, all candidates were considered equiprobable, as public opinion showed no clear favorite.
Just based on the kind of superficial analysis that in games of chance, the options tend to be equiprobable.
- Just based on the kind of superficial analysis that in games of chance, the options tend to be equiprobable.
Examples
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Intuition suggests that when there is no information on which to base the choice of the evicted item, a random, equiprobable choice of an item to evict is at least as good as any other rule.
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When flipping a fair coin twice, each possible outcome is equiprobable, meaning every result has the same chance of occurring.
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Each of those three is still equiprobable, so since there are three, each has 1/3 of the total.
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So we're basically talking about an equiprobable distribution over all possible permutations of EE elements.
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The more technical formulation states: "System organization increases so long as equilibration (equiprobable distribution of the system over all of its microstates) takes longer than phase space expansion" (Brooks et al. 1989, p. 412).
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In a game of dice, each number from one to six is equiprobable, so the likelihood of rolling any specific number is equal.
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Etymology
Equiprobable comes from equi- meaning 'equal' and probable meaning 'likely', so it literally says 'equally likely'. So, if events are equiprobable, they all have the same chance of happening.
