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did you type the first "‽" and then copy/paste the rest? basically the reason for this is that for any probability distribution over natural numbers that can r
by ouid 7y ago
did you type the first "‽" and then copy/paste the rest?
basically the reason for this is that for any probability distribution over natural numbers that can reasonably be called the average probability distribution of natural numbers, I have to assign smaller probabilities to larger numbers. There's a lot of ways in which this is formally true, but it's certainly true practically. Among the k digit numbers, the ones starting with 2 are larger than the numbers starting with 1, so they have to be at most equally likely, but there are the same number of each, so the probability of picking any number starting with two has to be less than or equal to the probability of picking any number starting with 1.
- whoopdedo 7y ago> did you type the first "‽" and then copy/paste the rest? Typing that is easy with a composing keyboard. AltGr+!,? outputs ‽ (Or AltGr+?,! is ⸘) Apologies for the off-topic tangent.
- ouid 7y agoTo be fair, I started it.
- sillysaurusx 7y agoI wondered the same thing. Thank you for voicing the question. One-off tangents like that are surprisingly fun, and informative.