- Look up
wager in Wiktionary, the free dictionary.
Wager can
refer to:
Wager, the
amount of a
valuable staked when
gambling on an
event with an uncertain...
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elements to be present:
consideration (an
amount wagered), risk (chance), and a prize. The
outcome of the
wager is
often immediate, such as a
single roll of...
- Pascal's
wager is a
philosophical argument advanced by
Blaise Pascal (1623–1662), seventeenth-century
French mathematician, philosopher, physicist, and...
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Wager Mutiny took
place in 1741,
after the
British warship HMS
Wager was
wrecked on a
desolate island off the
south coast of present-day Chile.
Wager...
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Wager Island (Spanish: Isla
Wager) is an
uninhabited island in
Guayaneco Archipelago, a
remote part of
western Patagonia.
Located 1,600
kilometres (990...
- The
Wager: A Tale of Shipwreck,
Mutiny and
Murder is the
fifth nonfiction book by
American journalist David Grann. The book
focuses on the
Wager Mutiny...
- HMS
Wager was a square-rigged sixth-rate
Royal Navy ship of 28 guns. It was
built as an East
Indiaman in
about 1734 and made two
voyages to
India for...
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would have the
consolation of
winning the bet. In 1975,
Michael Sipser wagered an
ounce of gold with
Leonard Adleman that the P
versus NP
problem would...
- the
amount wagered on the
winning position, $100, the net
payout is 3 to 1: $100
wagered, $300
returned in
addition to the
original wager. However, the...
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Wagering excise taxes, also
known as
federal taxes, are
levied against specific gaming forms in the
United States.
Wagers are
accepted by
places such...