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It's a funny trick, but it touches on something that I can't help but feel is completely nonsensical: repeatedly picking random numbers from an infinite set. I
by wlievens 16y ago
It's a funny trick, but it touches on something that I can't help but feel is completely nonsensical: repeatedly picking random numbers from an infinite set.
It's basically a longer version of the following trick:
1) Pick a random real number in the range [0, 1]
2) Pick another
3) What is the probability that they are identical?
For another example, see: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bertrand_paradox_%28probability%29 http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bertrand_paradox_%28probability...