Testing random

[Laura Creighton]

In a message of Tue, 16 Jun 2015 16:58:26 -0600, Ian Kelly writes:
>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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I think he is talking about what mathematicians call 'discrepancy':
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Low-discrepancy_sequence

Laura