Board game and hollerith tabulator: what they have in common

1. Step 1. Board game — uses — Dice. Dice.
2. Step 2. Dice — evolved into — Probability theory. Problems about games of dice (Pascal, Fermat).
3. Step 3. Probability theory — is used in — Statistics. Probabilistic foundations.
4. Step 4. Statistics — uses — Hollerith tabulator. Processing censuses.

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