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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.