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Number of outcomes of an event

3 June, 2015 - 12:13

In general, we use a letter "E" to represent "an event", and n(E) to represent "the number of outcomes of an event E".

Let's look at a simple example. We may have an event E defined as

E = "day\: of\: the\: week"

Since there are 7 days in a week, in this example the number of outcomes of an event E" is

n(E) = 7.