Re: Calculus XOR Probability

In article <a3fd6$4416d974$82a1e228$21769@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>,
Han de Bruijn <Han.deBruijn@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

David C. Ullrich wrote:

On Tue, 14 Mar 2006 10:27:03 +0100, Han de Bruijn
<Han.deBruijn@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

Calculus says that the outcome is 1 , while Probability Theory says
that, instead, we must do a dirty trick like this:

lim n.1/n = lim n ( lim 1/a ) = lim 0 = 0
n->oo n->oo a->oo n->oo

Nonsense.

Agreed.

Probability theory says no such thing.

I sincerely hope that you are right.


There is nothing in probability theory that requires any sort of
"continuity" in the discontinuous jump from choosing at random from a
finite sample space to choosing at random from an infinite one.
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