[dogruck]

Why is there a glaring typo in the first sentence of the abstract?

"In this paper, it is argued that probability theory, when used correctly, is suffrcient for the task of reasoning under uncertainty."

[xtacy]

The paper is probably OCRed.

[mturmon]

Good point. The rendering of "sufficient" probably uses the triple-ligature for "ffi", where all 3 characters are merged.

The author, Peter Cheeseman, is a reputable figure and a solid practitioner. I'm sure he's just as annoyed that, on the second page, his own name is misspelled as "Cheesemart" ;-).

People may recognize him as a co-creator of the AutoClass software for Bayesian clustering, which was very popular in the late 1990s - the explanatory paper has 1700 citations.

[mcny]

We can fix it. I have started a git repo for this https://github.com/michaelchristophernewyork/probability

please help clean up if you have time.

[anonymousiam]

Author's name is also misspelled in the header on one of the early pages. It's obviously been scanned and OCRed.

[CupOfJava]

OCR has come a long way, but still has lots to improve.