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Re:More than half of adults in U.S. say they lack basic stat... by rawgabbit on Wednesday August 26, 2026 @01:07PM (#49452458)
With large sets or sequences of numbers approaching almost infinity, counting as a method of determining how large things are ... doesn't work well as you found out. To determine if ginormous set A is larger than ginormous set B, you have to do things like matching-pairing. For every element in set A, pair it with an element of set B; if you exhaust all of the elements in B but still have elements in A... then set A is larger than set B.

To formulate the probability of B happening, for example, you have to make an educated guess. Create a functional equation that map A (all possibilities) to B (desired possibility). Then you make a ratio-fraction with the equation in the numerator and set A in the denominator. Using Algebra, try to eliminate references to A in both the numerator and denominator to give you an educated guess of what the probability is.

Re:More than half of adults in U.S. say they lack basic stat... by asa123 on Wednesday August 26, 2026 @11:14PM (#49459167)
It seems like you are mostly talking about cardinality, or proofs of problems pertaining to them, and the person you are responding to is saying they struggle with combinatorics
Re:More than half of adults in U.S. say they lack basic stat... by rawgabbit on Thursday August 27, 2026 @12:27PM (#49467415)
Yes, you're probably right.