Measure - Mathematics and Science

Mathematics and Science

  • Measure (probability), a mathematical construct that models a real-world experiment
  • Measure (mathematics), a way to assign non-negative real numbers to subsets
  • Measure (physics), a way to integrate over all possible histories of a system in quantum field theory

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