Skeat (Etymological Dictionary) the earliest known meaning is that of furious action, as in a charge of cavalry. The etymology, he considers, is connected with the Teutonic word rand (brim), and implies the furious and irregular action of a river full to the brim.
[2] See the problem paper of Jan. 18, 1854, in the Cambridge Mathematical Tripos.
[3] As, according to Mr H. Godfray, the majority of the candidates did assume when the problem was once proposed in an examination. See the Educational Times (Reprint, Vol. VII.
p. 99.)
[5] It would of course be more complete to take ten alternatives of direction, and thus to omit none of the digits; but this is much more troublesome in practice than to confine ourselves to eight.
[6] Any more than we picture the shape of an equiangular spiral at the centre.
CHAPTER VI.[*]
THE SUBJECTIVE SIDE OF PROBABILITY. MEASUREMENT OF BELIEF.
* Originally written in somewhat of a spirit of protest against what seemed to me the prevalent disposition to follow De Morgan in taking too subjective a view of the science. In reading it through now I cannot find any single sentence to which I could take distinct objection, though I must admit that if I were writing it entirely afresh I should endeavour to express myself with less emphasis, and I have made alterations in that direction. The reader who wishes to see a view not substantially very different from mine, but expressed with a somewhat opposite emphasis, can refer to Mr F. Y. Edgeworth's article on “The Philosophy of Chance” (Mind, Vol. IX.)