From 05f1748c138ec2073caba0a4a06ec99d5c489aa7 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Kayla Reopelle <87386821+kaylareopelle@users.noreply.github.com>
Date: Wed, 1 Oct 2025 16:06:26 -0700
Subject: [PATCH] Update Probability Sampler description

When reading through #4267, I noticed that the Probability Sampler description still had a reference to ratio-based. I think that entire section may be cut since the clarifications were specifically related to the old name.

Also, found a small typo.
---
 specification/trace/sdk.md | 9 +--------
 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 8 deletions(-)

diff --git a/specification/trace/sdk.md b/specification/trace/sdk.md
index 12ccfac020b..4542b9cfcee 100644
--- a/specification/trace/sdk.md
+++ b/specification/trace/sdk.md
@@ -512,14 +512,7 @@ OpenTelemetry follows W3C Trace Context Level 2, which specifies 56 bits of rand
 The `ProbabilitySampler` sampler MUST ignore the parent `SampledFlag`.
 For respecting the parent `SampledFlag`, see the `ParentBased` sampler specified below.
 
-Note that the "ratio-based" part of this Sampler's name implies that
-it makes a probability decision directly from the TraceID, even though
-it was not originally specified in an exact way.  In the present
-specification, the Sampler decision is more nuanced: only a portion of
-the identifier is used, after checking whether the OpenTelemetry
-TraceState field contains an explicit randomness value.
-
-Note that this is a non-composable form of probaiblity
+Note that this is a non-composable form of probability
 sampler. `ProbabilitySampler` directly implements the SDKs Sampler
 API, whereas [`ComposableProbability`](#composableprobability) is the
 composable form for use with [`CompositeSampler`](#compositesampler).