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Re:A liar who always lies says "All my hats are green." by vbarrielle on Tuesday December 10, 2024 @12:12PM (#42378795)
Am I right to assume one could also sample from a Gaussian distribution for the method to work? Of course, the probability e of sampling between the two real numbers would be very small, but it would be nonzero.
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Re:A liar who always lies says "All my hats are green." by ColinWright on Wednesday December 11, 2024 @03:19PM (#42392439)
Yes, any distribution with dense support works. Your problem is to prove that your method of number selection really does have a non-zero probability of being between any two distinct reals.

So ... yes, choose from a Gaussian, but then you have to tell me exactly how.

That's tricky.

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