"I have tried to inject determinism into what we call chance," said Mr. Xenakis, who used the scientific word "stochastic" to give a name to this idea of probability in music.
"There's nothing better than shooting up some brown tar or better yet, China White when you're doing a bid," a prisoner we'll call Chance tells me.
These basic quantum probabilities governing state transitions seem to be strong candidates to be called chances.
In the sciences, the idea that probabilities express physical states of affairs, often called chances or stochastic processes, is most prominent.
It is called Chance II Racing.
Dor de la Souchère later recounted the scene in a short and slightly apocryphal text called "Chance".
Aleatory music, also called chance music, (aleatory from Latin alea, "dice"), 20th-century music in which chance or indeterminate elements are left for the performer to realize.
'Chance,' Season 1 Hugh Laurie, who played Dr. House in the series "House" plays Dr. Chance in a new series called "Chance".
Almost fifteen years ago, in a book called "Chance, Development, and Aging," the gerontologists Caleb Finch and Thomas Kirkwood described a truly elegant study of biology: a batch of roundworms, all genetically identical, raised on identical diets of agar.
Other new products include a fragrance called Chance from Chanel and a line of apparel named after a young motocross champion, Travis Pastrana, from Puma, as well as the PCS Vision wireless service from Sprint.
