Aleksander comments on [Open Thread] Stupid Questions (2014-02-17) - Less Wrong

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Comment author: MarkusRamikin 18 February 2014 10:54:25AM 0 points [-]

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...

Comment author: Aleksander 19 February 2014 06:54:29PM 0 points [-]

While we're on the subject, what words would you use to differentiate "proof" from "evidence" in Polish?

"Poszlaki"?