Re: Calculus XOR Probability

On Fri, 17 Mar 2006 10:21:57 +0100, Han de Bruijn
<Han.deBruijn@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

David C. Ullrich wrote:

On Wed, 15 Mar 2006 16:15:25 -0500, Tony Orlow <aeo6@xxxxxxxxxxx>
wrote:

So, how do you distinguish between 0%
probability where is is some chance and 0% probability when there is none?

You _don't_ distinguish them _via_ probability.

What? You _don't_ distinguish "chance" (yes or no) _via_ "probability"?

Are you hard of hearing of what? No, you don't.

Now I'm completely at lost! What then is the difference between "chance"
and "probability"?

Hard question to answer, partly because I'm not entirely
certain what you mean by chance. If by "chance" we mean
whether or not something is possible, then it's still
a hard question to answer. What is the difference between
those two things? They're simply not the same thing at all.

Han de Bruijn


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David C. Ullrich
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