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> Nonetheless, he said, his research offers evidence that Native Americans were doing complex counting and were likely to have been the first humans to contemplate concepts like the law of large numbers, a mathematics concept that describes how a random sample will trend toward an equal distribution over time.

That's a stretch. Most early "gambling" was a way of putting the choice to the gods.

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People used to play board games to gamble/predict, for sure; but they also liked a moneyless/careless play.
If his evidence of complex counting is convincing, then it's not implausible to me that they soon also had some rudimentary understanding of e.g. coin flip frequencies.
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