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No it wouldn’t. You don’t understand how random works

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No, if truly random it could be any number from 0 to infinity. The randomization doesn’t impart any qualities to the selected number.

If you randomly selected numbers from the infinite range of numbers for an infinite number of time, you would get a result of “7” just as often as getting “3.456e11”.

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The probability of getting a finite number is pretty much zero.

For any range [0; n], where n is finite, there are always infinitely many numbers larger than n, so the probability of getting a number in said range is n/(n+infinity). I feel very confident in saying that something with that probability will never happen.

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If there’s any probability of an event, on an infinite timeline, it occurs infinite times.

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The probability of getting any number with a given set of characteristics is pretty much 0, but that doesn’t mean the number doesn’t exist once generated.

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3 points

why?

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fuck you

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Fuck you!

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9 points

Oh my God it’s spez

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👋 👋

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4 points

Is he here to fuck lemmy up too?

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5 points

Wait, are you high in the shower? Because that’s a little different.

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That’s not how that works.

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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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