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==History== This distribution was first studied in 1713 by [[Pierre Remond de Montmort]] in his ''[[Essay d'analyse sur les jeux de hazard]]'', as the distribution of the number of trials required in an experiment to obtain a given number of successes.<ref name="Montmort1713">Montmort PR de (1713) Essai d'analyse sur les jeux de hasard. 2nd ed. Quillau, Paris</ref> It had previously been mentioned by [[Blaise Pascal|Pascal]].<ref name="Pascal1679">Pascal B (1679) Varia Opera Mathematica. D. Petri de Fermat. Tolosae</ref>
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