scott <sco### [at] scottcom> wrote:
> >> Or do you also disagree with 0.99999... with infinitely many 9's equals 
> >> 1?

> No go on, please answer this one, because it's the same thing.  At which 
> point does 9/10 + 9/100 + 9/1000 suddenly equal 1?  Answer: when you extend 
> the series to infinity.

  I really can't understand why you are so fixated with that question.
I never doubted or denied its veracity. My reply clearly implied that it
is indeed so.

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

> A probability of zero means an event does not happen by definition, however 
> if you try an infinite number of times it might not necessarily never 
> happen.

  You don't have to try an infinite number of times to get a value from
a continuous range. You only have to try once. And the value you get had
a probability of zero of being chosen. Yet it was chosen.

> A good example has already been mentioned, of choosing an exact number 
> between 0 and 1.  The probability is zero for any specific number, but if 
> you sum up the infinite number of probabilities between say 0.2 and 0.3, you 
> will get a non-zero probability.

  You are not choosing a range of values. You are choosing *one* value at
random.

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