Re: Probability in an infinite sample space

Robert Low wrote:

it doesn't work. You *cannot* assign uniform infinitesimal probabilities
to the integers in such a way that the probability of choosing
a multiple of three is one-third. You can't assign infinitesimal
probabilities to the integers in *any way* so that the probability
of choosing integers from any particular set is a finite number:
it is always either infinitesimal or undefined.

That's the other way around: *you* can not do it, but *I* can. Standard
mathematics is not powerful enough, admittedly. That's because they try
to drive in a screw with a pneumatic hammer. But we engineers know that
it can be done in a more handsome way.

http://groups.google.nl/group/sci.math.num-analysis/msg/a49187dc40937332?hl=en&;

Han de Bruijn

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