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Showerthoughts

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[โ€“] [email protected] 4 points 9 months ago (1 children)

Even funnier in your example is that the chance of any real number ever being picked is infinitesimally small, instead of guaranteed.

[โ€“] [email protected] 4 points 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago)

Yep! Relatively speaking almost none of them will be picked. The same is also true even if one had a countable infinite amount of machines trying to pick these numbers.