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We exhibit a quite natural, adaptive process generated by price-taking, noncooperative firms, supply the same market. Under rather mild conditions, that process. being driven by marginal profits, converges to a market clearing, Cournot-Nash equilibrium. Namely, it suffices for convergence that cost functions be strictly convex and that the law of demand holds. Randomness in revenues and costs is accommodated.