Testing random

random832 at fastmail.us random832 at fastmail.us
Tue Jun 16 16:23:41 EDT 2015


On Tue, Jun 16, 2015, at 15:18, Thomas 'PointedEars' Lahn wrote:
> There is no such thing as “relative probability”, except perhaps in
> popular-
> scientific material and bad translations.  You might mean relative 
> _frequency_, but I was not talking about that specifically.

The probability of one event (getting a red on a roulette wheel) can be
larger than the probability of another event (getting a 17).

This is the plain english sense of the word "relative".


You have not answered my last question:


On Fri, Jun 12, 2015, at 18:57, random832 at fastmail.us wrote:
> On Fri, Jun 12, 2015, at 18:09, Thomas 'PointedEars' Lahn wrote:
> > Do you deny that “123456789” *is* “a sequence containing all nine
> > numbers”
> 
> Do you deny that "123456798" *is* "a sequence containing all nine
> numbers"?
> 
> Does this mean that "123456789" *is* "123456798" by the transitive
> property? NO.

The temperature today is hot. The temperature tomorrow is also hot. This
is true even if the temperature today is (for example) 37 and the
temperature tomorrow is 35.



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