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- From: arodgers@dcs.qmw.ac.uk (Angus H Rodgers)
- Newsgroups: sci.math
- Subject: Re: probability = 0
- Message-ID: <1993Jan8.215707.29618@dcs.qmw.ac.uk>
- Date: 8 Jan 93 21:57:07 GMT
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- In <1icir2INNn12@master.cs.rose-hulman.edu>
- goddard@NeXTwork.Rose-Hulman.Edu (Bart E. Goddard) writes:
-
- >Even though the probability of an event is zero, it can happen.
- >(The probability that I would attain this exact physical stature was zero,
- >and yet, here I am, living proof...) [...]
-
- Mathematical models of people may have exact physical statures, but
- people don't.
-
- It's not that the event in question has probability 0; it just isn't
- well defined.
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