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Recent Examples on the Web That means that many of its properties aren’t exactly determined, but rather have a probability distribution to them. — Ethan Siegel, Forbes, "Why Do Physicists Say A Multiverse Has To Exist?," 25 Feb. 2021 Sycamore calculated the probability distribution by sampling the circuit—running it one million times and measuring the observed output strings. — Elizabeth Gibney, Scientific American, "Google Publishes Landmark Quantum Supremacy Claim," 23 Oct. 2019 Instead, the possible results of measuring its position are given by a probability distribution. — Quanta Magazine, "Inside the Knotty World of ‘Anyon’ Particles," 28 Feb. 2017 And in this case, there is simply no way to get that probability distribution using a classical computer. — John Timmer, Ars Technica, "Paper leaks showing a quantum computer doing something a supercomputer can’t," 24 Sep. 2019 The particular probability distribution being used must be chosen with care. — Quanta Magazine, "Privacy by the Numbers: A New Approach to Safeguarding Data," 10 Dec. 2012 What if the probability distribution of letters is biased, so some letters are more likely than others? — Quanta Magazine, "The Information Theory of Life," 19 Nov. 2015

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