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Question of the Day! by kickstart2001-11-09 00:00:06
  Infinite Improbability by I_Am_Pi2001-11-09 08:35:23
    um, no by billb9142001-11-09 09:35:12
      Read the hitchhiker's guide, uncultured swine..... (n/t) by i_am_pi2001-11-09 10:46:20
        oink by billb9142001-11-09 11:11:43
          and I also got the reference (n/t) by billb9142001-11-09 11:12:55
            and again by billb9142001-11-09 11:19:37
              For the record by rwrannells2001-11-09 11:37:09
                I disagree differently. by flamebait2001-11-09 12:28:28
                  Wrong Flamebait by rwrannells2001-11-09 14:09:01
                    Wrong again by flamebait 2001-11-10 07:47:18
I grant that I erred semantically when I said that impossible is zero probability, I should have said that if something is impossible it has no probability (unless, of course, your philosophy is one in which nothing is impossible), because impossible means that it cannot occur, not that it is just very unlikely.

One divided by infinity is Not equivalent to zero. Try passing any math class while replacing all occurances of numbers divided by infinity by zero somethime.

I have had a logic class.

P1: I have a one chance in infinity of success
P2: I have an infinite number of repetitions
Conclusion:
I have one success

Simple logic. The argument is still invalid because both premises are trying to deal with an abstract contruct in absolute terms which don't really apply, but the logic is consistant.

[ Reply ]
                      Strike that. It is your defn. that is wrong. by flamebait2001-11-10 12:47:34

 

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