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Posted By: RM The best question ever invented - 03/24/06 10:29 AM
If you were to randomly generate integers for infinite time, are you guaranteed to get a specific number? (eg, are you guaranteed to generate the number 10 at some point?)
Posted By: soilguy Re: The best question ever invented - 03/24/06 03:10 PM
It's been many years since I've taken a stats class, but I'd say there is no guarantee. I'm not even sure how to determine the probability of getting a specific number when the possibilities are infinite and the number of samples are infinite. What's infinity/infinity?
Posted By: RM Re: The best question ever invented - 03/24/06 07:08 PM
Infinity does not have number properties; you can't add to it, subtract from it or multiply or divide by it.

And I just realized that I did not properly specify infinity, let me explain. If I were to take infinity even numbers away from infinity numbers I would still have infinite odd numbers. So infinity - infinity = infinity. But that is only because infinity is not properly defined. That is why I came up with this ingenious notation for infinity.

∞1 = every number (all multiples of 1)
∞2 = every even number (all multiples of 2)
=> ∞1 - ∞2 = all odd numbers

and so, when we specify infinity in the correct manor we see that ∞1 - ∞1 = 0

In proper notation the number after infinity should be in subscript. And please, if you use this notation, refer to it as the ?Miller notation?

Now to correct my original question: both the infinities I mentioned in the original question were ∞1.
Posted By: DA Morgan Re: The best question ever invented - 03/24/06 07:24 PM
The uncertainty principle eliminates any possibility of certainty.

But there is one heck of a very high probability.
Posted By: Anonymous Re: The best question ever invented - 03/25/06 04:22 PM
How you intend to perform the experiment?
Posted By: RM Re: The best question ever invented - 03/27/06 11:51 AM
...an experiment is impossible because it would last for ever.
Posted By: y Re: The best question ever invented - 03/31/06 01:34 PM
'...an experiment is impossible because it would last for ever.'

or for just one roll of the die (you may get 10 on the first go). smile
Posted By: RM Re: The best question ever invented - 04/01/06 10:46 PM
I don't believe it! Censorship has reached scienceagogo! Rusty you fiend!

And now for something relevant, have mathematicians ever seriously studied infinity or the concept of infinity?
All I get when I look it up is rubbish like [∞ = (-∞)]which I have just disproved with my amazing notation idea.
Is there some sort of secret underground society of mathematicians (like the present day illuminati) that has actually done a full analysis of infinity? If any of you have any connections with such people, please tell me all about their research.
Posted By: DA Morgan Re: The best question ever invented - 04/02/06 12:24 AM
Rusty ... you censored something?

Yeah Rusty!

Three cheers for Rusty!
Hip hip hooray!
Hip hip hooray!
Hip hip hooray!

For he's a jolly good fellow.
For he's a jolly good fellow.
For he's a jolly good fellow.
Which nobody can deny!

A drink to you my good man!
Posted By: dr_rocket Re: The best question ever invented - 04/04/06 09:44 PM
Mathematics has an elaborate theory of infinity with many open questions.
Try Googling "infinte set".
Posted By: Anonymous Re: The best question ever invented - 04/04/06 11:50 PM
Quote:
Originally posted by DA Morgan:
Rusty ... you censored something?

Yeah Rusty!

Three cheers for Rusty!
Hip hip hooray!
Hip hip hooray!
Hip hip hooray!

For he's a jolly good fellow.
For he's a jolly good fellow.
For he's a jolly good fellow.
Which nobody can deny!

A drink to you my good man!
*sigh* When I edit no one notices; when I delete no one cheers. *sex discrimination* wink
Posted By: DA Morgan Re: The best question ever invented - 04/05/06 07:59 PM
Perhaps when you do it no one complains. ;-)

Rose I applaud you for every time you have done so and not just made the threat!

Now take a good look at what Kate posted in the Science forum: "Climate Musings Spark Religious Brouhaha." Surely this belongs under "Not Quite Science" or "Avain Flu." ;-)

Sorry Rose ... I don't like to offend a woman that carries a shotgun.
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