Testing random

Ian Kelly ian.g.kelly at gmail.com
Tue Jun 16 18:58:26 EDT 2015


On Tue, Jun 16, 2015 at 4:30 PM,  <sohcahtoa82 at gmail.com> wrote:
> On Tuesday, June 16, 2015 at 3:01:06 PM UTC-7, Thomas 'PointedEars' Lahn wrote:
>> This should give you pause: In real mathematics, events with zero
>> probability can occur.
>
> Nobody will disagree with that.  The probability of me winning the lottery is zero if I don't buy a ticket.

I believe he's actually referring to this:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Almost_surely

Not that this has anything to do with the probabilities under
discussion in this thread.



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