Darren New wrote:

> What is unintuitive to me is that if you draw a numberline on the wall 
> and toss a dart at it (figuratively speaking), your probability of 
> hitting a rational number is zero. That is, there are so many more reals 
> than rationals that the chance of picking a real that's rational at 
> random is literally zero. It would seem there's *some* epsilon chance, 
> but apparently not. :-)

Probability of hitting an object with a size of zero: 0%. ;-)

Probability of hitting an uncountable infinity of objects each with a 
size of zero: 100%.

GO FIGURE!

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