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Discovered 2000 Apr. 26 by P. G. Comba at Prescott.
Andrei Andreevich Markov (1856-1922), a professor at St. Petersburg University, introduced the study of "Markov processes" in probability theory. These are discrete-time systems where the state at a given instant depends only on the state at the immediately preceding instant, and not on other past history.
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