Aleksander comments on [Open Thread] Stupid Questions (2014-02-17) - Less Wrong
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Polish (or Polish-speaking) people help me out here: do we even have a word for mathematical odds? I distinctly remember learning about it in math class, but I can't for the life of me remember what the old hag called it, bless her grumpy soul. And the fact that this page... http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Odds ...has all those equivalents in other languages, but not Polish, is starting to make me seriously fear that we just don't have a word for it.
While we're on the subject, what words would you use to differentiate "proof" from "evidence" in Polish? Seems "dowód" is the only thing we have...
While we're on the subject, what words would you use to differentiate "proof" from "evidence" in Polish?
"Poszlaki"?