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English has been using the word "martingale" since 1580 at the latest. It originally meant a strap that could be added to a horse's harness to limit how far the horse could lift its head; this was used during training as a check against out-of-control behavior.TooManyFingers (talk)22:45, 6 May 2024 (UTC)[reply]
Actually, for the word origin we should start with the gambling use, as this is not about etymology but mathematics and probability.Limit-theorem (talk)12:27, 8 May 2024 (UTC)[reply]
The word does not come from the strap for horses, to my knowledge. If I remember correctly, there were other things that were also called amartingale in the past. The origin of the word in mathematics is to my knowledge unkown. There is also a French article about it:"Histoire de martingales" by Roger Mansuy (Roger Mansuy, “Histoire de martingales”,Mathématiques et sciences humaines, 169, Printemps 2005, DOI: 10.4000/msh.2945)Tensorproduct --talk20:59, 8 May 2024 (UTC)[reply]
