Subject: Re: [lojban] 2 maths questions

From: [email-masked]
Date: Mon, 10 Jul 2000 22:14:57 +0000

Jorge Llambias wrote:
> It is of course possible to define some new mathematical
> function that assigns to the integers twice the value that
> it assigns the even numbers (the function proposed taking
> limits is probably the best),

Ivan replied:
> Here is another: What is the probability that any
> randomly chosen integer number is even? Answer: 1/2.

Randomly chosen how? until you define the distribution
your definition is not well defined, and I can think of
distributions where the answer is not 1/2. Even many 
"obvious" or "natural" distributions don't work. You
can't sweep infinity under the carpet.

cdw
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