POV-Ray : Newsgroups : povray.off-topic : Weekly calibration : Re: Weekly calibration Server Time
6 Sep 2024 11:16:00 EDT (-0400)
  Re: Weekly calibration  
From: scott
Date: 21 Apr 2009 11:41:33
Message: <49ede92d@news.povray.org>
>  In other words, you would have to pop up an infinite amount of numbers
> before you reach the situation where the works must appear. However, no
> matter how many values you pop up, they will never be infinite. By 
> definition
> you can *not* pop up an infinite amount. You will never reach infinity.
>
>  Thus the works are *never* forced to appear.

It seems to me you are concerned about an event taking place an infinite 
number of times, rather than anything to do with probability.

Yes I know the text says that "with infinite time", and in reality this can 
never happen, so I guess that's the explanation you are looking for?


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