scott <sco### [at] scottcom> wrote:
> >  So exactly at which point are the works forced to appear, to fulfill
> > the probability of 1?

> In the limit of N --> infinity.

  That's, in fact, the exact same thing as saying "never".

  And that's how it is: Each *individual* round of popping up values from
the RNG has a smaller-than-1 probability for the works to appear. Thus at
no point are the works *forced* to appear.

> >  The answer is: They are never forced to appear.

> ...unless N is allowed to be infinite, which the original problem states 
> quite clearly.

  So at which point are the works forced to appear?

> Or do you also disagree with 0.99999... with infinitely many 9's equals 1?

  Do you disagree that a probability of zero does not mean that the event
will never happen?

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