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Rh that the true value of $$x$$ falls on neither the one side nor the other of $$X$$.

Celebrated geometricians have chosen for $$X$$ the most probable value of $$x$$ and consequently that which corresponds to the largest ordinate of the curve; but the preceding value appears to me evidently that which the theory of probability indicates.