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Why likelihood is not always a density function? [duplicate]

I try to self-learn Bayesian machine learning (mostly by studying Bishop and Kevin Murphy's books). While working with formulas I was puzzled by the quote that "Note that the likelihood function is ...
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How to understand the posterior distribution is the same as likelihood function

So I read this post Why is the posterior distribution the same as the likelihood function when uniform prior distribution is used in Bayesian Analysis, and learned that when we have a uniform prior, ...
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