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> Nope. Probability theory gives zero.
OK, well I will have to bow down to your superior maths knowledge over mine.
I was just going by what I had read about 1/infinity not being strictly
speaking zero (only under certain circumstances) and the fact that the
infinite series seems to be defined as always equal to 1 in mathematics. I
was not aware of anything specific in probability theory that defined the
probability of choosing 1 item from an infinite number as zero. Writing the
probability as 1/infinity rather than zero explained the "never gets chosen"
paradox you mentioned quite nicely, but oh well...
>> Of course you can discuss how this relates to reality, but I'd rather
>> not get involved in that one, it could an infinitely long time :-)
>
> But that *is* what Warp and I are complaining about.
You should first discuss if there is enough time for an infinite number of
finite length events to ever happen :-) Personally I think you have to
treat this a strictly theoretical concept, otherwise you run into all sorts
of other technicalities about whether it can actually happen.
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