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Doesn’t it depends on whether we are talking about real or integer numbers?

EDIT: I think it also works with p-adic numbers.

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No. In the set of real numbers it is still very possible to randomly select a number that can be written with finite digits.

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op is right, infinity is larger than you’re imagining

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OP is wrong. A truly random real number does have a much higher probability of being an irrational number or repeating rational number, but it is certainly not the case that a truly random number “will be” one of these two as terminating rational numbers are still possible to select.

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