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Re:Paradoxes of Probability and Other Statistical Strangeness by oh_sigh on Tuesday June 13, 2017 @08:04PM (#14549760)
How can the sum of infinitely many zero probabilities be 1? I can understand how the sum of infinitely many infinitely close to zero values can be 1, but not infinitely many exactly zero values
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Re:Paradoxes of Probability and Other Statistical Strangeness by Retra on Tuesday June 13, 2017 @08:16PM (#14549812)
There's no such thing as a "sum of infinitely many" anything. What we are talking about is the limit of an infinite series, which behaves nothing at all like a sum.
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